Has anybody else noticed an annoying trait of the Mozilla / Apache combination when they are on the same computer? When you're browsing your own Web site and you click on a link, rather than piping the file directly to its helper application, it first "downloads" it to the cache and then pipes THAT to the helper application. I discovered this accidentally when I decided to "surf" to a locally stored 1G MPG I'd videotaped of my wedding (I'm working on editing it). After seeing how long it would take to download and open, I cancelled it. If I simply double-click on the file through Windows Explorer it's opened up immediately.
Is this a "bug" with Mozilla not recognizing that the file being "downloaded" is local? Is it a bug with Apache? Is it a combination of the two? I'm just wondering if a) there are any settings I can change in Mozilla (or Apache) to modify this behaviour should I be looking at my local filesystem, b) if I should create a bug on the topic (assuming that it's Mozilla related), or c) if there's simply nothing that can be done about this... Jason.
