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.htm problem and solution
Authored by: ThreeDayMonk on Jul 11, '03 11:57:52PM

The problem is not a ".htm" problem per se. As far as I can tell, all the .htm files are returned from the same site: www.musicsonglyrics.com. They appear to have set their server up rather badly, so that content-type is set to server-parsed instead of text/html. Even trying to visit the site is impossible in Safari!

That's why Safari downloads it: it doesn't know how to handle it. Compare that with Internet Explorer (Windows version), which tries to guess the format, and therefore happily interprets anything as HTML that looks like it, with predictable, negative consequences for security. Safari behaves correctly, as does Camino. IE:mac doesn't know what to do—it can't handle the page, according to my brief test.

The solution? Add -site:musicsonglyrics.com to the Google request. Works for me.



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