Caching and opening files

[Richard Mercer]

Several months ago I was very pleased to find that I could use OmniWeb to  
download a Mathematica notebook from a remote machine, and it would  
automatically open it in Mathematica. This resulted from the notebook file  
being cached in a /tmp directory and then opened -- with a .ma extension it  
naturally opened in Mathematica.

I planned to experiment with using this feature in an instructional laboratory. 

Now that I have gotten around to this experiment, I find that it simply doesn't  
work. Although I use precisely the same URL format, there is apparently a  
difference in the way files are treated when the http server is located on the  
same subnet. What happens in this case is that the file is not cached and  
opened, but simply transfered as a text file. Mathematica notebooks are stored  
in their own baroque text markup language, and it's not a pretty sight when  
they show up as text files.

So the question is: is there a workaround, a way to force OmniWeb to cache and  
open files obtained from a local http server?

Whether or not there is, please plan to remove this "feature" from future  
versions, or at least make it a selectable preference to ALWAYS cache and open  
files.

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