I'm having some rather confusing problems using PDB URLs. Let me
elaborate.
Here at York we use an in-house PDB viewer called Molviewer, rather
than RasMol. This is started via
molviewer <pdb file>
So my .mime.types file has an entry that looks like
application/pdb pdb PDB
and the corresponding .mailcap entry is
application/pdb; /usr/sg15/people/mjh/bin/molviewer.tcl %s
(the path is correct).
When I run
netscape <local pdb file>
it brings up molviewer with the correct file, or
netscape <local pdb directory>
it brings up the directory; clicking on a pdb file starts molviewer properly.
Problems arise when I use other pdb files (e.g. the one on the Technology page)
I get the "Save to local disk" requester, indicating that netscape hasn't
"recognised" the file.
I've tried this with Mosaic and Emacs W3 so I'm pretty sure it's not a
Netscape-specific problem.
One thing I have noticed is that the pdb URLs that work are, for example
<A HREF="/usr/sg17/people/proctor/pdb/1abf.pdb">
while
<a href=1crn.pdb>pdb file</a>
does _not_ seem to work.
Is it a problem with the relative addressing mechanism in the http protocol?
I'm working on a SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.2.
Look forward to hearing from you
Glenn.
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