Thank you for your response.
The problem is now solved.
This is a snippet from the HTML document which was giving me trouble:
<embed src="122d.pdb" bgcolor="#000000"
width=100% height=100%
name="x-how"
script= etc. etc...
Netscape had to be forced to do the stamping itself by changing the code to:
<embed type="chemical/x-pdb" src="122d.pdb" bgcolor="#000000"
width=100% height=100%
name="x-how"
script= etc. etc...
This worked for local HTML documents requiring chime.
Many thanks.
Bernard
Dave Houldershaw wrote:
> Hi Bernard,
> This looks like a MIME-type stamping problem. When files are passed through
> the server they are identified by their extension (eg .pdb) and are stamped
> accordingly, that is, a couple of lines of text are prepended to the file that
> identify it as a particular sort of file, this text is then used by the browser
> to interpret the file. For example, our script that sends out pdb files will
> first prepend to the pdb file the text "content-type: chemical/x-pdb" followed
> by two blank lines (why the blank lines are necessary I don't know, but they
> are). The browser then looks up "chemical/x-pdb" in it's list of know types and
> fires up the appropiate application.
>
> You could try manually stamping the files yourself (but remember to take out the
> stamp before transferring them to the server!) and hopefully Netscape is
> intelligent enough to recognise whats going on, otherwise your solution of
> putting the files on the server first seems the only way around the problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Cheers,
> Dave H.
>
> Bernard M. Debono wrote:
> >
> > Dear David,
> >
> > Chime is giving me some trouble.
> >
> > I have absolutely no problem using it when I am online. When I create
> > local *.htm files, I ensure that the *.pdb files are in the same local
> > directory. When Netscape 4.04 (on Win95) loads this file, instead of the
> > image I get the "jigsaw puzzle" sign and it offers me to retrieve the
> > plug-in for me. When I transfer the file and the necessary *.pdbs to my
> > web-server, everything works just fine.
> >
> > Can you help?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Bernard Debono
-- Dr Bernard Debono MD Department of Physiology and Biochemistry Biomedical Sciences Building University of Malta Msida Malta Tel: +(356) 3290-2286/ 320129 Fax: +(356) 310577 E-mail: bdeb1@um.edu.mt