Re: Navigate method causes file download instead of view?

From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/14/04

  • Next message: Jim Howard: "Windows 98 rendering problem using CDHtmlDialog" 
    Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:40:05 -0400

    "Mark" <mark_wilson74@hotmail.com> wrote in message
    news:ce25aede.0405140126.3ec5ea40@posting.google.com
    > Now the files in question are .asp files and I know normally that they
    > should be served by a web server but it also possible to just get IE
    > to view them I know this because the application works fine on my
    > laptop and one of the customer's PCs. However on another PC when the
    > navigate method is called passing the local path to the ASP file then
    > you just get the file download "some files are harmful to your
    > computer" dialog instead.
    >
    > Does anyone know what might be causing this behaviour?

    Open Explorer, go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types, find ASP in
    the Extensions column, select it and hit Advanced button. I suspect
    you'll find that on one machine "Confirm open after download" checkbox
    is checked while on the other it is not, or perhaps ASP entry is missing
    from the list entirely. 

    -- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong." H.L. Mencken
  • Next message: Jim Howard: "Windows 98 rendering problem using CDHtmlDialog"