.asp on a mac?

[lnp]

This is going to be a dumb question, but why can't I view .asp files on my mac? Why does Camino, Firefox, and Safari download these guys as separate files and then provide me no way to open them? I normally don't care, but the terms of my student loans are on them and I'd like to read what I owe.

[picch]

.asp should just load in the browser. I don't think asp and aspx are OS Dependent, unless it's on the server side then you'd need a windows box. But, after you download it can you reopen it in firefox? Or do you have a copy of dreamweaver?

[fturtle]

You could try changing it to a .htm or .html file and opening it. Assuming you saved it from your browser it'll just be the page's client-side html and stuff in the file

[emurphy1]

ASP and ASPX web pages work with Safari or Firefox on a Mac. Try going to http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice. That URL should redirect you to an .aspx page. See if that displays for you.

The fact that you are getting the same behavior in different browsers tells me it's not a browser preferences setting that is causing the behavior. My guess is there is something about the way the page you are trying to access was coded that is causing your browser to think it should download a file. You might consider posting the URL in question to see if other Mac users get the same restults.

[lnp]

I would do that if it weren't loan information. Basically what happens is I sign into the site (with either Camino, FF, or Safari) and then I click on a file that is supposed to display information about my loan. In FF it opens up a new window but then downloads a file and in Safari and Camino, it just downloads a file that ends with the .asp extension. Once I get back home on my own network, I'll try Kyle's suggestion.

[fturtle]

I assumed you were doing file->save or something on a page after viewing it. There's a 'content-type' header that is sent as part of an HTTP response. If a browser doesn't have some specific notion of a file type, it'll go based on that and try to render it if it happens to say it's 'text/html' or the like. Even if your browsers downloaded it, it should be viewable as an htm or html file, though..maybe missing images, CSS, or javascript with relative linking to the page, but the text should all be there.