opensearch

I have tried to implement opensearch (http://www.opensearch.org/Home) on my site but keep running into the error (using Firefox 3.0.1):
'Firefox could not download the search plugin from: ...'

I've tried copying both the xml file and the <link rel='search' from a site where I know it does work (twitter) and still get the same error. That leads me to believe that the problem is site/IIS related.

Has anyone run into this before?

Any help would be appreciated

TIA

marc

 

Thanks Bruce,

To answer your specific question, no I can't actually figure out how to get opensearch to work (on any site) with Internet Exploder.

But I still believe that it is hiccuping loading the xml file from my site.

I know that it works perfectly from twitter, so I copied their xml file and pit it on my site, and also copied their page rel link and put it on my page. So if the file is identical, and the link is identical, and the browser is identical, what's left? I was thinking that it might be something with the application mapping in IIS, or how the virtual directory is set up, but I vastly exceed my knowledge as soon as I get past spelling IIS.

If I look in the IIS log files, the calls to opensearch always seem to followed by a 304 or 404 status, which makes no sense to me (I've already admitted I'm clueless). file hasn't changed so use the cached version (304) and file not found (404). Particularly since I can access the file by putting the path into the browser window; it brings up the xml just fine.

I also tried clearing the cache as well, with no success

marc