7z support
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Hi, support people. Recently I've discoved sort of a problem with article submission. You see, in the article submission wizard it is said that 7Z archives are supported. In reality, not entirely. One can upload them, but when you create a link to 7z file in your article, it can't be downloaded. The 404 error will be shown. So I had to replace 7z with zip. Could you verify that everything is OK with 7Z? Maybe they're not in IIS mime list. Or just remove all the words about 7Z support from the article submission wizard. I'm using Firefox 35.0.1. Thank you.
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Hi, support people. Recently I've discoved sort of a problem with article submission. You see, in the article submission wizard it is said that 7Z archives are supported. In reality, not entirely. One can upload them, but when you create a link to 7z file in your article, it can't be downloaded. The 404 error will be shown. So I had to replace 7z with zip. Could you verify that everything is OK with 7Z? Maybe they're not in IIS mime list. Or just remove all the words about 7Z support from the article submission wizard. I'm using Firefox 35.0.1. Thank you.
7z support has been painful. The libraries we use have been very patchy in their ability to actually read 7z files. Overall 7z is not a common format so our approach has been to support uploads and the convert 7z files to standard zip files to ensure the largest audience possible can view them. Check to see if a zip version has been created automatically and try linking to that. Could you please post the URL to your article? I'm assuming the 7z is still there. I'll take a look and try and get the 7z link working too.
cheers Chris Maunder
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7z support has been painful. The libraries we use have been very patchy in their ability to actually read 7z files. Overall 7z is not a common format so our approach has been to support uploads and the convert 7z files to standard zip files to ensure the largest audience possible can view them. Check to see if a zip version has been created automatically and try linking to that. Could you please post the URL to your article? I'm assuming the 7z is still there. I'll take a look and try and get the 7z link working too.
cheers Chris Maunder
OK, my article is here C++/CLI for Beginners[^]. 7z hasn't been replaced by zip automatically, so I did that manually. The article has been reviewed by one of your editors after the update already.
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7z support has been painful. The libraries we use have been very patchy in their ability to actually read 7z files. Overall 7z is not a common format so our approach has been to support uploads and the convert 7z files to standard zip files to ensure the largest audience possible can view them. Check to see if a zip version has been created automatically and try linking to that. Could you please post the URL to your article? I'm assuming the 7z is still there. I'll take a look and try and get the 7z link working too.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
The libraries we use have been very patchy in their ability to actually read 7z files.
C# (.NET) Interface for 7-Zip Archive DLLs[^] SevenZipSharp[^] Or the lowest level: LZMA SDK[^] :)
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