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Firefox search plugin for Longman Dictionary Online (updated)

Posted by on August 25, 2008 No comments

Longman Dictionary Online updated their website and changed HTTP request syntax, so search plugin for Firefox requires update. Here is the updated Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Search Plugin for FireFox.

FireFox 3 and multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type

Posted by on August 14, 2008 No comments

I wonder what was the reason to change and basically disable well known behavior on multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type with the release of FireFox 3? It never worked with Internet Explorer but it has been working with Mozilla Netscape through FireFox 2. Why the hell this was to be changed?

GET /cgi-bin/zzz HTTP/1.1
Host: xxx:yyy
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: ru,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GoAhead-Webs
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=myboundary

--myboundary
Content-type:image/jpeg
DaemonId:0x00360003

No longer I can check server push M-JPEG streams using FireFox, supposedly there is a configuration tweak to bring well known behavior back.

Firefox search plugin for Longman Dictionary Online

Posted by on July 11, 2008 1 comment

Longman Dictionary, my favorite one, offers online dictionary service through its website Longman Dictionary Online http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/.

I did not notice any intent to offer integration tools, instead they only made available pronouncation .wav files for words starting with two letters, but luckily it is still quite easy to integrate Firefox with the website through a search plugin (if installed manually, it should be copied into %user%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%profile%\searchplugins).