Unauthorized download
- We're sorry, but this download request cannot be authorized. As an option,
you may visit any of the pages below for information about our services
and products:
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- There could be several reasons why you're seeing this page:
- You clicked on a link on a site that is not part of the AMD domain.
- You're using a download manager. Download managers
usually offer to search for alternative download locations. While this
is nice for the user,
it's bad for the webmaster because a download which originated
on another site could theoretically still be downloaded from this site, without
anybody knowing.
Workaround to this restriction: Set up your download manager to send
a HTTP referrer, and when you click on a link on the AMD site the download
will
then be authorized.
- Your browser did not send a referrer. This normally
happens if you right click on a link and select save-as, or if you copy
and paste a link into
a new browser window and press Enter. It may also be that your browser is
set up to not send any referrer. Left clicking on a
link works just fine and has been tested in IE, FireFox, Netscape , Opera
and Mozilla.
- Some software firewalls (such as Norton Personal Firewall or ZoneAlarm)
remove the referrer from HTTP requests which will block any downloads on
any site that
does a referrer
check. Hence such options should always be turned off. In Norton go to the
Privacy Settings and disable browser privacy (which doesn't really
protect your privacy anyway as your IP address will always be logged regardless
of that setting), in ZoneAlarm go to Privacy -> Cookie Control
-> Custom and uncheck "remove private header information".
- If
you use a mozilla based browser (Mozilla, Firefox or Netscape Navigator),
referrer sending can also be deactivated (it is activated by default). To change
that setting, browse to "about:config", then search for "network.http.sendRefererHeader".
If the value is set to 1, referrer sending is enabled, if it is set to 0, it
is disabled. To enable it, double click on it, then change the value.
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Message for webmasters:
if you are attempting to link directly to files on our servers
your readers will be seeing this page, please link to the pages on ati.amd.com.
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