Goblins demo link problem?

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:43 pm

A series of games I've never played is Goblins so I thought I'd d/l the demos here.
But I'm having a problem for the first one. The others are OK.
I'm sure it's not a problem on my end.

Usually with something like this I'd use a web site's "contact" link. This web site has one but has no direct email links. IRC is something I don't use either.

Could somebody try the Goblins demo link. Just to make sure.
Here's a link to the demo page.
http://www.scummvm.org/demos.php

If the problem's not at my end hopefully somebody will see this that can take action.

joostp · Post by **joostp** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:53 pm

Downloads fine here with wget, but not with firefox (says the page endlessly redirects).

md5 · Post by **md5** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:12 pm

The Gobliiins DOS demo is hosted at this site:
http://minifiles.ag.ru/demos/448/gobliiins_demo.exe

The minifiles site does a referrer check, and it doesn't like that the file is directly linked from another web site (quite common strategy to stop bandwidth stealing, but in this case it doesn't make much sense). This explains why the link works from a download manager (the referrer is empty), but doesn't work from ScummVM's web site. So as a temporary workaround you could copy and paste the direct link in your browser. A more permanent solution would be to find another host for this file, that doesn't do such checks...

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:50 pm

Thanks to both of you. I was trying with Firefox/Windows.