On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I click on the links to source code here --
> http://webEbenezer.net/build_integration.html
> , Chrome downloads the file contents.
> I'm not sure, but may have seen that with
> another browser also.  Is that something that's
> changed?  I have a link to an archive on that
> page that can be downloaded which has all of
> the files linked to on that page.  So I don't want
> a browser to download individual files,but to
> display the contents of the file on the screen.
> Tia.

That page is telling the browser that the content is of type
"application/octet-stream".  Since Chrome doesn't know how to display
application/octet-stream, it prompts you to download it.

What changed could be the browser, the server, or your memory :-)

It could be that the browser's default behavior changed from showing
application/octet-stream as plain-text to downloading.
It could be that the server changed from sending the files as
text/plain to application/octet-stream.
It could be that you only thought you remembered it working that way.

--
Michael