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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi,

> I have tested a few of QR code readers, they behave in different ways
> but none is really good.

I have some, too :-)

With "Quick Scan", I get frame lod interrupted; it doesn't even offer to
use Safari.

iCody requires me to copy&paste myself into a browser. It has a way
bloated settings menu; I might be able to change things, but TBH can't
be bothered.

NeoReader also uses the mini-browser; but has a simple switch for "Open
in Safari" in its settings. It has a 5-star rating in the App Store, so
is among the better ones.

"Scan" opens in the mini browser, but when clicking the download button,
it automatically opens the same page again in Safari. A next click on
the button *there* then downloads the settings.

"i-nigma" does the good stuff immediately - URLs open in Safari.

And, does the mini-browser have product name for Apple? It's always
possible to go to bugs.apple.com and report about their frame load
interrupted bug. That would do good for all those other QR readers.

> One possibility is that on download, they just reopen the page in Safari
> and you need to click download again.
> Second possibility is the error, that you have mentioned.
> The third is that nothing happens.
> 
> I have tested that the problem is not related to any JavaScript code.
> Even a simple link does the same thing, so this does not seem to be the
> problem of the CAT interface as such and I have no clue what we could do.
> I have looked ad what HTTP_USER_AGENT reports and it looks like we
> should be able to tell Safari from these other browsers, then perhaps we
> should just display a message that things may not work as expected?

From some bug reports I got a feeling that maybe some of the HTTP
headers make the mini-browser fall over.

We generate in downlaod.php, and then have header(Location) to redirect
to the actual file. Maybe header:Location is what the mini-browser
doesn't understand?

Stefan

> 
> Any ideas?
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> 
> W dniu 2013-08-28 20:29, aaron street pisze:
>> Yep that's the one. It might just be this QR reader (first free one I
>> found). Thank you for the help today, I have been able to get a lot of
>> eduroam stuff sorted out today.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 28 Aug 2013, at 19:18, 
>> "A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk"
>> <A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>>    I just realised that the QR reader I used was not opening the
>>>> page in
>>>>    safari, once I did this it all worked fine. Sorry for troubling
>>>> you I
>>>>    should have used the URL to get to the downloads from the
>>>> browser. The QR
>>>>    reader I had has both "open URL" and "open URL in Safari" needed
>>>> to make
>>>>    sure I chose the second one.
>>> ah! that is good to know. so...what browser DOES it open then?
>>> the small/stripped down one that you get for captive portals?
>>>
>>> alan
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