[WEB4LIB] Strange Netscape Behavior

[Andrew Mutch]

This happened on both a local page and a page from Yahoo.
I did check the MIME type for HTML files and it was properly associated to handle it
using Navigator.

Andrew

Hagen Amen wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Andrew Mutch wrote:
>
> > I figured I had seen it all with Netscape but this is a new one that has no
> > answers in the FAQs so I'm hoping someone else has run into this problem [and
> > solution!]
> >
> > It's simple:  Every link, when clicked on, fails to open a new page.  Instead,
> > the "Save As..." prompt appears asking you to save the page.
>
> Is this behavior from just one web server, or all? Of course, if it's
> one, then perhaps they don't have the MIME type set correctly, which
> would indicate a *really* broken webserver. However, I gather that's not
> the case.
>
> I'd start with looking at the 'Netscape Hypertext Document'
> associations.
>
> Hagen Amen          Network Analyst
> Multnomah County Library Automation