On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:12:22 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:36:54 +1300, you wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 21:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> >> > Save as webpage complete,
> >> 
> >> Nope, the page is already saved by some previous action, and it was
> >the> result of some form data so can't be reloaded/resaved. Also, I
> >am not> really interested in doing things the way mozilla happens to
> >like them.
> >
> >Mozilla is extremely fussy about how it does things. It sticks to
> >standards etc like glue.
> >
> >> Remember: things have to work with any browser :)  And I don't see
> >why> I shouldn't save web pages with wget or konqueror's file->save;
> >mozilla> being too dumb to do anything with it otherwise isn't a good
> >enough> reason. (And there were 2 separate issues: can't display
> >./file.php
> >
> >Why should a .php file be rendered as an html file? 
> >A php file might have html in it but is *not* html. Just because
> >Konqueror does something dodgey that makes things easier under
> >certain circumstances doesn't make it right. 
> ><flamebait>Ye gods Volker, you're making the same arguments as M$.
> ></flamebait> 
> >
> >:-) 
> >
> >> and can't load ./style.css when displaying ./file.html - neither
> >make> me more keen on mozilla).
> >
> >Have you looked at the paths etc to the css inside the html file? (or
> >the php file or whatever)
> >
> >> 
> >> Perhaps it's fixed now, but my 1.2.1 is less than a year old.
> >
> >Have you actually established that there is something to fix?
> 
> Couldn't agree more! In this context, php is a server side language,
> and you're looking at it directly with a client browser. For example,
> how on earth would you expect the client to handle database access to
> a (now remote and inaccessible ) database??
> 
> The php _generates_ the html that your browser sees. To do this, it
> needs to have the support of a php enabled html server. 

yes, but he _is_ downloading the html that php generated on the server.
It is saved as .php because that is what it was called on the server,
but the contents Volker is downloading is the generated html, *not* the
php source.


> 
> Why not build yourself a local apache server with php support, and use
> that to serve the php towards Mozilla, and then see whether it works.
> You'll find details at http://httpd.apache.org/, and
> http://www.php.net/downloads.php
> 


no, see above, we do not have (or care about) the php source.


> hth,

with respect, it doesn't!

> 
> steve
> 


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