"Add Web Page" doesn't work in Online Catalog

Sat, 03/28/2009 - 12:17 — telno

I followed the steps in the Stanza FAQ for uploading ePub books using Stanza's "Online Catalog", but I am not able to read my uploaded books.

Here's what I did:

Created a basic HTML page with links to my ebooks. (the HTML literally only has the HTML, BODY, and A tags)
Uploaded all the files to my site.
Using Stanza, I add the webpage in the "Online Catalog" section.
When I click the newly added webpage, it comes up and I see the links.
Now, when I click on one of the links, Safari opens up and gives me an error: "Download Failed - Safari cannot download this file"

Appreciate your help with this!

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Wed, 02/03/2010 - 08:25 — mfarney

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There can be many reasons for this error. When I don't know how to solve a certain problem I search for the exact error on Google and see what comes up. You should try it too. As I see, there are some forums that have discussions on this matter. It seems ePub has annoyed many people.
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Wed, 04/01/2009 - 23:27 — badrm1

help1!!!!!!!!

ok i am totally confused how do i create a personal web page with ebooks on it to add to my iphone to download from my library from my own website how do i add the website to stanza please help!!!

Thu, 04/02/2009 - 00:25 — Emily

Do you have your own website?

Do you have your own website? If not, then please check out the more typical ways of transferring books, as described in the first few options listed in the link below. I recommend sharing with Stanza Desktop or uploading your books to Bookworm:

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/how_to_get_books_onto_stanza_iphone

If you do have your own website, you should know enough html to be able to throw up a web page that has links to your ePub books. Then follow the directions in the above FAQ for adding your own website of book.

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Sat, 03/28/2009 - 18:09 — Emily

What format are your books

What format are your books in? For instance, are they in ePub format or some other format?

Sat, 03/28/2009 - 19:47 — itimpi

The Online Catalog facility

The Online Catalog facility does not work with an HTML based web page - it needs an XML file in the Atom XML Syndication format.

If you want to download from a HTML URL then use the Direct Download option.

Sat, 03/28/2009 - 20:53 — Emily

Just to clarify the above

Just to clarify the above comment -- you definitely can do Add Web Page to add your own web page with links to epub files.

Direct Download is for doing a one-time download of a single epub file directly from its exact URL on the web.

To create your own catalog for the Online Catalog that you want to be displayed like the other catalogs in the Online Catalog, you do need to use the Atom XML stuff, but that is not necessary if you just want to make a simple web-page-based way to download books for yourself.

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 08:01 — telno

Nope, doesn't work

My HTML page links to ePub documents. I also tried eReader format. Neither works - both give the safari error I mentioned. Does this work for anyone else? I think the FAQ may need to be updated.

The online FAQ said nothing about creating an Atom XML, but I will give that a try. The FAQ section I am referring to is here under the title "Adding your own web page full of books"

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 11:35 — Emily

I just tested it to make sure

I just tested it to make sure that it still works, and it does, so we don't need to update the FAQ.

I suspect that there is something up with how you've written the HTML or with what your web hosting service is doing. For instance, do you have the full URL to the book or just a local link, e.g.,

a href="myBook.epub" (might not work)

a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/myBook.epub" (ought to work)

Are you using stanza:// or something else instead of http:// in the URL? Is it possible that traffic to your personal website is redirected by your web host?

Our website does have information about creating a catalog with Atom XML, but it's not something causal users need to know about, so it's on the developers page and not in the FAQ.

http://www.lexcycle.com/developer

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 07:56 — telno

That was it

I just verified: Stanza requires that the link be fully qualified (ie ... http://mydomain.com/book.epub) .... I was using relative path (ie .. book.epub)

It might be useful for people to know this in the FAQ documentation, because relative paths are much more common for web developers as they are portable across sites without needing to change all the URLs. There are also part of the HTML W3C spec.

I use relative path by default and would never have discovered this issue if you didn't point it out.

Thanks Emily !!!

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 09:52 — Emily

That's pretty surprising,

That's pretty surprising, actually!

The internal web browser is basically Safari. It should work just fine with the relative path, and when I tested it yesterday on a few of my personal websites, relative paths worked just fine for me.

I said "might not work" in my post because I can imagine something going awry if there is a redirect or if your web hosting service is doing something funny. My "might not work" qualifier would apply not just to downloading a file to Stanza but to downloading the file at all.

When you have just the relative paths, what happens when you try to traverse the link in Safari or Firefox or whatever browser you like to use on your computer?

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:35 — telno

What Safari and Firefox do

I just checked Safari and Firebox on my desktop machine. They both download the file successfully whether it is a relative path or absolute path.

Send me a message if you'd like a link to the page I'm using.

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:43 — Emily

Will do. Thanks!

Update: We tested on several different phones and networks, and we were able to download the books from this user's website from both the relative and full URLs. We're still not sure why the relative path didn't work for this user, but we have updated our FAQ to recommend using fully qualified URLs.

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 10:52 — itimpi

Were the download links on

Were the download links on the web page in the right format? In other words were they of the form "stanza://somesite.com/books/mybook.epub" rather than the more traditional "http://somesite.com/books/mybook.epub"

The Atom XML format certainly works as that is what I use for my own online catalog, but creating the correct format is none-trivial. I created the script Calibre2Web to do it for epub books maintained by the Calibre library management tool.