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Old March 22nd 11, 05:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy[_1_]
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Default OLC download limit

On Mar 22, 9:41*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Mar 22, 8:52*am, Andy wrote:





On Mar 22, 7:58*am, Max Kellermann wrote:


Mike wrote:
I once asked this of OLC, and was told they knew of no limit-this
was two years ago of so.


http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?url=Term...


*"The User shall be regularly permitted to retrieve up to ten analysis
*files per calendar day (such amount hereinafter referred to as
*"Reasonable Use"). Upon exceeding this limit, any further retrieval
*of analysis files will be prevented for the remainder of the calendar
*day. Further restrictions may be imposed if the stipulated limit is
*repeatedly exceeded"


This rule is obviously evil, but not new.


If the download limit is 10 per day then either there is an
incompatibilty with Firefox, or a bug in the way the download count is
implemented.


I selected a flight log, then selected IGC (download), *saved that
file, then attempted to use browser "back" function to go back the 2
pages required to select another flght log for the day. * "Back" kept
returning me to the download management window where I repeatedly hit
cancel/back before I gave up and started a new session with OLC.


It seems that all the attempts to get past the download management
screen were counted as downloads even though I downloaded nothing.


(by download management screen I mean the window that offers the
choice of opening or saving the file)


So how do I select another flight after having downloaded an IGC file?


Andy


That's pretty much the method I use and I have downloaded plenty and
never hit a limit. *I've used both Firefox and Google Chrome.

Maybe you need to upgrade your operating system and browser (still
using Windows 95 and Netscape?)

Mike- Hide quoted text -

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I stated clearly that the browser in use was Firefox. I didn't
declare the OS but it is XP Home.

I only use an archaic browser at work and that is forced on me by
company IT policies.

Andy