File Download

[Hilohi]

Sometimes the Church's website will ask if I want to allow downloads (see the attached picture). This often happens when I log into my Church account, leave it open for a bit (and it presumably times out), and then I try to navigate the Church's website again (usually the parts of the website where one needs to be in his account). I usually just close the window and then go back to the Church's website to log back in. This time I accidentally downloaded the file and it's a blank document file called "callback". First, why does the Church's website ask if I want to allow downloads in the aforementioned context (seems like an error to me) and, second, what's this "callback" file?

Edit: This issue is currently occurring when I click on the Ward Directory and Map link on the Church's website. When I click on said link, instead of going to the ward directory, I get the pop-up message shown in the screenshot (except it says "www.churchofjesuschrist.org" instead of "tech.churchofjesuschrist.org"). I get the same issue on two different computers.

[mevans]

It's actually your web browser (Safari) asking if you want to download a file. This is a security feature in browsers and there's usually a way to say you trust a site and always allow downloads from it so you can avoid the message. However, what's strange is that the church website is trying to download a file when you do something. The browser's just there telling you what's going on to see if you want to allow it.

Does this seem to be the behavior when navigating to any page after your login has timed out? Or are you usually going to specific pages that require login?

[Hilohi]

It's actually your web browser (Safari) asking if you want to download a file. This is a security feature in browsers and there's usually a way to say you trust a site and always allow downloads from it so you can avoid the message. However, what's strange is that the church website is trying to download a file when you do something. The browser's just there telling you what's going on to see if you want to allow it.

Does this seem to be the behavior when navigating to any page after your login has timed out? Or are you usually going to specific pages that require login?

Yeah, that's the strange part - that the Church's website is asking me if I'll allow downloads when I'm not actually downloading anything and I'm just trying to click to get to another part on its website/LCR.

Not sure about any page of the Church's website as I'm usually in LCR when this happens. That said, I did get that pop-up message when I tried to access these forums yesterday and the directory.

[Cheerest]

I am having the same issue.

[ricklenderman]

Same challenge - following - giving me an error code to download “callback” when trying to approve CES ecclesiastical endorsements…on Safari, is that the challenge?

Thank you!

[russellhltn]

It might be worth trying on a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Brave, or Edge)

[caillines]

That will sometimes happen if there is a misconfiguration or server issue.

Instead of telling the browser "render this and display it to the user" it will say "here's a file". The browser doesn't know what to do with a random file, so it just tries to download it.