Safari not loading vCard file into Address Book

Sorry, this question should probably fall under the Safari Forum but for some reason the "Post New Thread" link doesn't display in that section for me. Any idea why. Anyways, I have a link on my site to link to a .vcf (vCard) file. But when I click on the file using Safari, Safari loads the .vcf file content into the browser rather than opening the .vcf file into my Address Book. When I try to download the file, the file is converted from filename.vcf to filename.vcf.txt. Any idea why and how to get around this problem?

> for some reason the "Post New Thread" link doesn't display in that section for me.
You’re probably trying to post in a category (i.e. a group of forums). You must go to a specific forum in that category to be able to post there.

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