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Old 09-20-2013, 08:51 AM   #1
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Question Missing Epub help manual from website
Issue resolved, see below - IE issue not the source

I tried to update my Epub copy of the Calibre Manual from the website today
(http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/) but the link EPUB format in the line

"An ebook version of this user manual is available in EPUB format, AZW3 (Kindle Fire) format and PDF format."

downloaded a file named calbre.zip.

This file seems to contain mainly html files relating to the help topics and not the expected "calibre.epub" I had before.

The AZW3 download reads fine in Calibre.
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Old 09-20-2013, 09:10 AM   #2
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If you've still got an original copy of the "calibre.zip" file, just rename the extension on the file to ".epub" and it should be fine.

Epubs are zip files with certain mandatory files placed inside. So long as those internal files comply to the necessary specification/scheme, then the extension can be changed at will without difficulty.

Hmm... well... I think Windows questions whether you really meant to change the file extension, but otherwise you're fine.
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Old 09-20-2013, 09:14 AM   #3
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That link downloads calibre.epub for me.
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Old 09-20-2013, 10:00 AM   #4
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downloaded a file named calbre.zip.

This file seems to contain mainly html files relating to the help topics and not the expected "calibre.epub" I had before.
Are you Internet Explorer as your browser? Internet Explorer will silently change the extension of epub files from .epub to .zip.

Under the covers an epub file is in ZIP format and in this case Internet Explorer thinks it knows better than you what the file should be called.
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Old 09-20-2013, 11:36 AM   #5
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Nice catch Itimpi. I would never have noticed that as I'm using Firefox.
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Are you Internet Explorer as your browser? Internet Explorer will silently change the extension of epub files from .epub to .zip.

Under the covers an epub file is in ZIP format and in this case Internet Explorer thinks it knows better than you what the file should be called.
What is it that is differentiating the manual calibre.epub file accessed from the link? I have downloaded many hundreds (probably many more than a thousand) of epubs over a number of years with various versions of Internet Explorer up to now version 10, from many sources, and out of those it is only the calibre.epub from the link that has ever downloaded as a ".zip" ???

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What is it that is differentiating the manual calibre.epub file accessed from the link?

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A Google search suggests its a server issue.

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Old 09-20-2013, 07:14 PM   #8
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Looks as if that is a possibility at the server end (the epub itself appears correct for content type to these inexperienced eyes).

Chrome, which I hardly ever use but now tried for this file, for me, also downloads it as a zip, as does IE. I don't have that other web browser to try, whatever it is called .
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Old 09-20-2013, 10:16 PM   #10
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curl -I http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/calibre.epub
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:12:34 GMT
Content-Type: application/epub+zip
Content-Length: 1896291
Last-Modified: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:33:56 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Ranges: bytes
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Looks as if that is a possibility at the server end (the epub itself appears correct for content type to these inexperienced eyes).

Chrome, which I hardly ever use but now tried for this file, for me, also downloads it as a zip, as does IE. I don't have that other web browser to try, whatever it is called .
mosaic or safari perhaps

I tried Amaya from W3C - it downloads as ePUB, and does my vanilla Chrome

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Old 09-20-2013, 11:18 PM   #12
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I used Chrome 29, IE 10 and Firefox 24 and they all downloaded the file as calibre.epub.
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mosaic or safari perhaps

I tried Amaya from W3C - it downloads as ePUB, and does my vanilla Chrome

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Something like foxylady or fireylady, something along those lines anyway, and derived from a Gecko.
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Something [... snip ...] derived from a Gecko.
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