[Users] fancy plugin: printing no-cache image

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 08 April 2015 02:24:44 Christian Hesse wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> on Tue, 2015/04/07 18:35:
> > On Tuesday 07 April 2015 18:15:10 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> on Tue, 2015/04/07 23:45:
> > > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:37:52 +0200
> > > >
> > > > Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> wrote:
> > > > > Does it not suffice to enable loading of remote content for
> > > > > the specific mail before printing?
> > > >
> > > > I have tested with a payment notification from paypal and
> > > > enabling remote content loading before printing does show all
> > > > images with url references.
> > > >
> > > > Use the small bar bottom left in the message view window. See
> > > > attached screenshot.
> > >
> > > I did use that. The e-mail is displayed correctly after that.
> > > It's just the printing that breaks.
> >
> > If it is displayed, I'd go for printing the screen snapshot.
>
> That makes the print blurry and limits to just half a page. Not an
> option.

I've apparently a higher resulution screen.  In any event, my bank is 
still trying to get me to go back to electronic statements by clicking 
on the print it. They don't seem to understand that a printed statement, 
by their bit of scriptory magic, is totally worthless if the from-to 
date boxes are blank in the resultant printout.  So I went back to 
paper, mailed statements.  I fussed, but they declined to fix it for 
more than a month at a time.  What ever they did to enable it must not 
have been winders compatible.  No winderz machines allowed on the 
premises here.

I would force the issue by opening a stop payment on the charge when it 
appears on your statement, saying that their paranoia precludes printing 
the barcode that makes the purchase actually work.  If time is not of 
the essence, they can print it and mail it to you, but if time is of the 
essence, and you are prevented from consumating the purchase at the 
designated time, then I see no reason to pay for it, do the stop payment 
order.  Most banks do have charge for processing the order, but I dare 
say its less than being forced to pay for something you did not receive.

The only way you can get these idiots attention, and get problems like 
this fixed is to effect their take home pay at the dividend level.

> > > I was wrong about that caching, though... The server does not send
> > > any rules about cache. Probably the Content-Disposition header is
> > > responsible for this?
> > >
> > > % curl -I \
> > > 'http://www.londonpass.de/barcodegen/orderbarcode.php?orderno=LPB'
> > > HTTP/1.1
> > > 200 OK Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:09:56 GMT
> > > Server: Apache
> > > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="barcode.png"
> > > Connection: close
> > > Content-Type: image/png
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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