hello the page property is when I right-click on the IE page and click on "page property" from a linux server: Content-Type: text/plain I suspect that some configuration is overriding this AddType. Could it be that cause? thanks --- Scott Courtney <scourtney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 09:55:16 Melanie Pfefer > wrote: > > the page property is Firefox Document (should be > xml > > document) > > I'm not sure what you mean by the "page property". > Have you looked at the > HTTP response headers to see what's actually being > sent down to your system? > If you just ask the browser or the operating system > "what kind of file", you > are likely to get an answer that depends more on the > file association settings > in your workstation rather than what the server is > actually sending. > > If you run Linux or have access to a Linux machine, > try something like this, > but with your own URL: > > $ wget -S -O /dev/null http://www.apache.org/ > > --10:04:06-- http://www.apache.org/ > => `/dev/null' > Resolving www.apache.org... 140.211.11.130 > Connecting to www.apache.org|140.211.11.130|:80... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:04:02 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) > Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:48:46 GMT > ETag: "14f34f3-4613-448a9d28d6f80" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 17939 > Cache-Control: max-age=86400 > Expires: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:02 GMT > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Content-Type: text/html > Length: 17,939 (18K) [text/html] > > The Content-Type header at the end tells you what > the server is sending, > independent of what your workstation's o.s. is > configured to do with it. > > Kind regards, > > Scott > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott D. COURTNEY, Principal Engineer > Sine Nomine Associates > scourtney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.sinenomine.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the > Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for > more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: > users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ___________________________________________________________ Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx