Sounds like the browser has been set to do things automatically  although i
think you can force the issue by checking settings that will force browsers
to download the file (a friend did this before but dont know the details
sorry google maybe)


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi:
>
>    The following is a the summary of the problem:
>
>    A colleague tries to use an IE browser to view the listings of a
> directory of 2 remote
> machines. The remote machines are running apache as its web server. The
> files are under the
> directory are of type .pdf.gz
>
>
>     On one machine, when the user clicks the name of the file, the file is
> uncompressed and the
> pdf document is displayed on the browser. One the other machine, it prompts
> the user to save the
> file. Is this problem apache related? The colleague did some grep on some
> of the apache
> configuration file of both machines and it seems that they are similar
> (Should have probably diff
> them).
>
>    If this problem is an apache problem, where does the problem reside?
> mime.conf? httpd.conf?
>
>    Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ludwig Lim
>
>
>
>  
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