mozilla firefox file opening

[NoOp]

On 04/24/2007 04:48 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/24/2007 02:08 PM, R Kimber wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:32:05 +0200
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> 
>>> Then I typed file:///home/mario/Desktop/testfile into the URL box and
>>> pressed enter. The file opened fine. Same if I use the File Open
>>> dialog.
>>> 
>>> Is this what you mean doesn't work for you?
>> 
>> No.  I'm using apache2 to serve files locally, so it would be something
>> along the lines of
>> 
>> http://hostname/~mario/Desktop/testfile
> 
> Works just fine in FF 2.0.0.3
> 
> I just tested by uploading (ftp) a common html file to a remote server,
> deleted the .html extension on the file, and then linked in via Firefox
> and SeaMonkey (1.1.1)- both worked just fine. FF & SM recognized the
> file, served up the webpage - no problems.
> 
> I suspect that your problem may be with your apache2 server. Could it be
> that the server is serving up the file as text rather than html?
> 
> 

Sorry, forgot to mention that the webserver is also apache:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[snip]
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora)
[snip]
[snip]
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 12
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF