What is so different about Linux+Apache?

I’ve got an application that serves up projects via the web.  It uses a pointer file and that pointer file tells my client application where to look for the images that exist in it’s project.

For example, I have a file called pointer.maxFR which has one line of text in it:

maxpt http://www.myhomeoffice.org/ellsworth/ellsworth.maxfr

 

My application reads that pointer.maxFR file and KNOWS that it will find the images in ellsworth.maxFR at http://www.myhomeoffice.org/ellsworth/

Here’s the rub:

- This works great if the server is IIS.
- This works great if the server is using Apache and the client is using IE.
- If the server is Apache and the client is Firefox, all the user gets is

maxpt http://www.myhomeoffice.org/ellsworth/ellsworth.maxfr

displayed as a line in their browser.

WHY?  How do I fix it?  I don’t know Linux well enough, as I don’t use it enough to know where to look.

Email me if you would, or DM me on twitter as mike_strock

 

Thanks!

 

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