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wumpuskiller

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Feb 23, 2001
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Hi,
I'm having a problem for which I can't locate a solution.

Over the last couple of months, an increasing number of websites that I try to access first start with a prompt to download a file (they never used to do this). Regardless of whether I choose to save the file or to open the file when prompted by either Internet Explorer (5.5) or Netscape Navigator (4.72 and 6.0), I am unable to get into the website (if I choose save, then the file is saved, but I progress no further on the website; if I choose open, then I get a prompt for which app to use to open the file).

When I look at the contents of the saved file, it is HTML code. I've included the start of this file from the www.usmint.gov website below. Can someone who is well-versed in HTML take a look and tell me if there are some browser options I need to set or what the resolution would be?

BTW, I am running win98se.

TIA and regards,
wumpus....
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>The United States Mint</TITLE>

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="The U.S. Mint produces circulating coinage in order for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. Currently, the mint's state quarters program is better known but not more important than the fact that they mint golden dollars.">

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="mint, money, 50 state quarter program, coins, bullion, state quarters, making money, golden dollar, dollar coin">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="PICS-Label" CONTENT='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true comment "RSACi North America Server" for "http://www.usmint.gov" on "2000.08.24T012:00-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'>

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX">

<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="1 Days">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="EN">

<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="The United States Mint">

<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright © 2001 The United States Mint. All Rights Reserved.">
<LINK HREF="/css_mint.css" REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" TITLE="Mint Style Sheet">

</HEAD>

<BODY LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0">

<A NAME="top"></A>
 
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morkinva

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Who is your ISP?

Also, are you running some kind of downloader like getright, netscape smartdownload or something like that? Do a ctrl-alt-del and write down everything that's running and type it here if you don't know.

Just guessing and bump.
 
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wumpuskiller

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Feb 23, 2001
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My ISP is RCN. Not running any download agents in the background. I've checked the background tasks. Its a long list, but nothing new, unusual or anything that would cause this behavior. Thanks for trying.:)
wumpus....
 
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wumpuskiller

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Feb 23, 2001
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Well, I turned found my problem. I changed my connection settings to ignore my proxy server and -duh- now no problem. So I'll investigate my proxy's security settings. Mork...thanks for the help, when you said look at what's running in the background, nothing looked unusual and then I thought about the proxy. Thanks for making me think a litte (I guess I was too tired last night and thought clearer this a.m.).
Regards,
wumpus.....
 
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