bookshare's explanation not correct

[Cheryl Homiak]

Here's the response i got to my complaint.
Excuse me; I use ssl on plenty of sites with no problem; wrote back and told him
so.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 11:37:32 -0400
From: Peter Scialli <sscialli at bellatlantic.net>
Reply-To: Peter Scialli <Peter at benetech.org>
To: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net>
Subject: Re: Tried to download a book at bookshare.org

Hi,
  Bookshare is, in fact, accessible by Linux users.  You must
either be using the SSL version of Lynx or have Http-Refer enabled
in your Lynx configuration.  These security measures are
requirements of our copyright agreement with the publishers so
that plain text browsers that do not have security enabled cannot
gain access to the download authorizations.  Bookshare.org does,
in fact, have a clearly stated 45 day money back gurantee, so if
you should decide to join, your money can be refunded in full
during that period.  In the meantime, I suggest you try to use
your security enabled browser on the public domain content which
does not require a membership.  Thank you.
Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
www.bookshare.org
A Project of The Benetech Initiative-Technology Serving Humanity
peter @benetech.org
www.benetech.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at chartermi.net>
To: <webmaster at bookshare.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 10:45 AM
Subject: Tried to download a book at bookshare.org


> Hello.
> I am using linux and lynx.
> I just tried to download "the story of My Life" by Helen Keller
in Ascii text.
> Didn't do anything 'unusual"; just followed the links. nks. Got
> the following filename suggestion when I used the
> "d" for download in lynx:
> Error.html?errorid=-1001&page=Download.html&line=34
>
> So I just tried hitting enter on the link for the Ascii text
file. Here's what I
> got:
>
> web error -1001
>
> The most likely cause of this error is typing in the URL or
bookmarking a page
> that must be navigated to in a controlled manner.
> While it is usually allowable to type in or bookmark a URL, some
pages are
> protected to avoid displaying incorrect information on the page.
>
> This error occurred in Page Download.html.
> This error occurred on line 34.
> If you're seeing this page, then either your actions were
unexpected by the
> website or there was an internal website error. Please review
your last few
> actions to see if there was something unusual, and report the
problem to
> webmaster at bookshare.org.
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