page loads in IE, but download box opens in Mozilla

jimmyb · 08-25-2004, 12:51 PM

Hello all,

First posting for me on here.

I am very new to asp and looking for the answer to a problem. A friend's host has just enabled .asp support for him. When I load the following page in Internet Explorer, it works fine, but in Mozilla a download dialog box opens up:

http://www.campuslivingcentres.com/student/default.asp

The page has this include tag thrid line from the top:

Code:

<!-- #include file="include/inc_header.asp"-->

Here is the page:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<!-- #include file="include/inc_header.asp"-->
<title>Campus Living</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="include/style.css">
<script language="JavaScript" src="include/inc_javascript.asp"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="include/inc_menu.asp"></script>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" src="include/menu.js"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<script language="JavaScript1.2">fwLoadMenus();</script>
<!-- #include file="include/top_nav.asp"-->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="760" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111">
  <tr>
   <td>
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r1_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r1_c1.jpg" border="0"></td>
   <td>
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r1_c2" src="images/02a_college_template_r1_c2.jpg" border="0"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td bgcolor="#006699" valign="top" background="images/02a_college_template_r8_c1.jpg">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r2_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r2_c1.jpg" border="0"><br>
   <a onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('n02a_college_template_r3_c1','','images/02a_college_template_r3_c1_f2.jpg',1);" href="default.asp">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r3_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r3_c1.jpg" border="0"></a><br>
   <a onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();FW_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="window.FW_showMenu(window.fw_menu_0,205,191);MM_swapImage('n02a_college_template_r4_c1','','images/02a_college_template_r4_c1_f2.jpg',1);" href="residents.asp">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r4_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r4_c1.jpg" border="0"></a><br>
   <a onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();FW_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="window.FW_showMenu(window.fw_menu_1,205,211);MM_swapImage('n02a_college_template_r5_c1','','images/02a_college_template_r5_c1_f2.jpg',1);" href="life.asp">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r5_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r5_c1.jpg" border="0"></a><br>
   <a onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('n02a_college_template_r6_c1','','images/02a_college_template_r6_c1_f2.jpg',1);" href="location.asp">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r6_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r6_c1.jpg" border="0"></a><br>
   <a onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('n02a_college_template_r7_c1','','images/02a_college_template_r7_c1_f2.jpg',1);" href="alumni.asp">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r7_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r7_c1.jpg" border="0"></a><br>
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r8_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r8_c1.jpg" border="0"><br>
<!-- #include file="include/inc_student_housing_link.asp"-->
   </td>
   <td rowspan="2" valign="top" background="images/02a_college_template_r2_c2.jpg">
   <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="516" id="AutoNumber4">
     <tr>
       <td width="34">&nbsp;</td>
       <td width="482">&nbsp;</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="34">&nbsp;</td>
       <td width="482">
       <h1>Welcome</h1>
       </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="34">&nbsp;</td>
       <td width="482">
       ***********content removed***************
       <p>&nbsp;</td>
     </tr>
   </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#006699" background="images/02a_college_template_r8_c1.jpg">
   <img name="n02a_college_template_r10_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r10_c1.jpg" border="0"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="760" id="AutoNumber2">
    <tr>
      <td>
      <img name="n02a_college_template_r11_c1" src="images/02a_college_template_r11_c1.jpg" border="0"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
   
</body>
</html>

Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks everyone!!!

JimmyB

jimmyb · 08-25-2004, 12:57 PM

I thought I found the answer, turned out to be wrong...

A1ien51 · 08-25-2004, 01:21 PM

First off the line



should be in the body tag....

I do not have mozilla on this machine, or I would test it out...

Eric

jimmyb · 08-25-2004, 02:45 PM

So you cannot have include tags outside of the body tag?!

How come it works in IE then?

BuddhaMan · 08-25-2004, 02:50 PM

Whatever you did at the time of this post, the situation is now reversed. IE tries to download the default.asp file and Firefox opens the page up.

A1ien51 · 08-25-2004, 02:59 PM

I am assuming that the  is the header image and not information to be placed in the header.

If I am correct then you need to keep the body content in the body tags.

If the content in the include belongs in the header tag then it remains.

Eric

jimmyb · 08-25-2004, 03:27 PM

Think I may have the answer...

I renamed the .asp file in the include tag to .inc and that seems to be working, but someone else may be working on the site, too:



to



Are .asp extensions allowed in include tags?

jimmyb · 08-25-2004, 03:31 PM

Still not working, may be proxy, I have cleared cache and put a ? at the end of the link...

glenngv · 08-26-2004, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmyb

Think I may have the answer...

I renamed the .asp file in the include tag to .inc and that seems to be working, but someone else may be working on the site, too:



to



Are .asp extensions allowed in include tags?

Actually, it's recommended to use .asp in include files not .inc
If the user happens to know the filename of .inc and types it in the browser, the file can be downloaded. See this article for more info of this topic.

I noticed that you have HTML comments  inside the external js named "inc_javascript.asp". There should be no HTML comments in an external js.

As for the include file not working, I tested it in Firefox and the default.asp displayes but the includes don't work. In IE, the default.asp itself is asked to be downloaded. The problem seems to be in the IIS in Application Mappings section. The extension .asp might have been deleted in the Application Mappings list. Probably, it partially works for Firefox because the page was sent as text/html. Actually there are no asp codes in default.asp, only include files that have .asp extension.