"you have chosen to open" when trying to open html file 1

[ardan]

Hi,

I have an apache server running on a xp box. Everything works great with any pages with .php but if I try to open a .html file I get a "you have chosen to open" requester and a choice to open or save....This only happens in firefox not in IE but it does happen on every computer running firefox...

Any ideas??
thanks ardan...

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[feherke]

Hi

I get a "you have chosen to open" requester and a choice to open or save....This only happens in firefox not in IE

That sounds like the typical situation when no [tt]Content-type[/tt] header is sent by the web server.

Those the companies just implemented different sentences of the HTTP protocol :
[ul]
[li]FireFox : "If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".".[/li]
[li]Explorer : "If and only if the media type is not given by a [tt]Content-Type[/tt] field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource."[/li]
[/ul]
So both are correct ( ok, FireFox is more correct ), the wrong is probably the web server administrator.

Check the HTTP response headers in both browsers with the appropriate tools :
[ul]
[li]FireFox : LiveHTTPHeaders[/li]
[li]Explorer : ieHTTPHeaders[/li]
[/ul]
The [tt]Content-type[/tt] probably is missing. Check your httpd.conf file for [tt]DefaultType[/tt], [tt]SetHandler[/tt] and [tt]AddType[/tt] directives.

Or post the relevant parts of the httpd.conf file.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ardan]

Thanks for your response Feherke,

I kind of inhered this and I am a Newbie..

Here are the parts of the http.conf file I think you needed

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# DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document
# if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
# If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is
# a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
# or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to
# keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
# text.
#
DefaultType text/plain

#


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# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
#

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options

# for more information.
#
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

Options Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.cgi
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm .ssi

#
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<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/manual">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

<Files *.html>
SetHandler type-map
</Files>

SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru)/ prefer-language=$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2
</Directory>



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Thanks again for any help...I am lost on this issue...

ardan


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[feherke]

Hi

[tt]AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm .ssi[/tt]

Who put that there ? That results the following header line :

Content-Type: text/x-server-parsed-html

Which is meaningless to the browsers. By the way, neither Opera displays the page.

Comment it out. Probably nothing will mis it.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ardan]

Thanks Feherke,

That seems to have fixed it, I am not sure where the line came from but when I commented it out then Firefox started working...

Thanks Again,,

Ardan

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