Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

werps · May 8, 2006, 03:31 PM

Anyone know how I can open a .aspx file on my mac running 10.3.9 ? Is there a free application out there that will open it? I have taken on a task for my company and the forms and files that I must download are .aspx files. Hope I don't have to get MicroSoft Office or anything! Otherwise I will have to do it all from the office. I should mention that is is strange how they download from Safari. One was a tiff and Safari warns that there is a "bad server response" after the download. The one I did get downloaded was that .aspx file and Abiword, adobe reader 7, text edit, Appleworks 6, would not open it. Thanks, Tom

Apfhex · May 8, 2006, 04:55 PM

ASPX is a ".NET Active Server Page", um, I don't know much about .NET but I don't think the .aspx files are the ones you're supposed to be getting. What kinds of files were you expecting, PDF or TXT or something?

werps · May 8, 2006, 05:29 PM

I talked to a fellow that tried to help me and he did not know much more than. I told him I was surprised they were not pdf and he siad they are tiff. He did not know why. I think they are able to put them in Exel and modify and reload them back in the program. I think I may need to take care of this in the office on the Windows machines but was hoping there was an easy answer. I wish I could convey things better but I don't understand it myself. He didn't think it would work on Apple and that I had to use IE. I tried IE and it did the same thing. Well I don't expect an answer I guess as I don't know my question. I sould have learned more before asking. I just thought that .aspx was a file I could get help to open. Looks like it is more. Thanks , Tom

shiff · May 8, 2006, 06:18 PM

An aspx file is normally just a text file. It is the .Net version of the .asp file. You should be able to open it right up in a text editor or rename it .rtf or .txt.

I am opening some .aspx files right now that way.

ntsc · May 9, 2006, 08:51 AM

it sounds like they have some problems with the web based stuff. I'm not sure what you would do to edit or even really use a tiff in Excel. Tiffs are image files and cannot be edited in excel as far as i know.

Safari and Firefox should both handle aspx pages fine, by the time they get to you they are just plain old html webpages -- nothing different from these forums for example.

Incidentally i would imagine that the "Bad server response" error you got was the remote end breaking on the something as well.

all2ofme · May 10, 2006, 10:25 AM

You shoudn't be opening .tiffs in Excel - an image processing/viewing app is what you're after for that. Preview will open them, for example.

The .aspx files will open fine in a text editor, but you'll be better off opening them in something that won't affect the formatting in the files. I think TextEdit is fine if you have it ignore formatting (Prefs somewhere).

The .aspx files won't display in the way they're intended to (i.e. on a web browser) unless you have them running on a web server that supports them and has all the required .dlls in place.

Hope that helps a bit - it's not all that clear what you're trying to do.