seeing asp files in firefox

[Phillip Susi]

That web server is broken.  It states that the mime type of that page is 
text/plain instead of text/html like it should.  Firefox is rendering 
exactly as the server instructed it to.  Not sure why it works in IE. 

Kush Singh wrote:

> At present i am using firefox 1.0.7 in breezy and when i go to the 
> link containing an asp file (such as 
> http://www.cag.gov.in/home_page.asp) i can only see the source text of 
> the asp file. ie it does not render automatically in the browser till 
> i save the file as with the extension html or htm.
>
> Kush Singh wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> How can one set firefox to view asp files?
>>
>> I searched on the net and at mozilla.org but could not find any help 
>> on this topic. Tried adding asp as text/html in  /etc/mime.types as 
>> follows
>> text/html                    html htm shtml asp
>>
>> but that did not help too. Same is the case with making changes to 
>> ~/.mime.types as follows
>> type=text/html desc=Active server pages" exts="asp"
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Kussh
>>
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