Viewing a file online, NOT downloading it to my MAC

Is there a setting in Safari that will allow me to just view a document or file from a website without downloading it to my Mac?

Kdenver23 wrote:
Thanks for your response. Sorry, I should have been more clear.
What I am referring to is when you visit a site and come across a link containing a document or other file. With my current Safari settings, I click the link and the file is downloaded and sent to my downloads folder.
If I were to click the same link on a PC running Vista, a new page pops up and displays a PDF... or if it were a Word doc, it asks if you would like to "open" or "save" the file.
Is there a way to do the later using Safari?
I'm familiar with that behaviour on Windows - what it means is, "I'm about to download this file, but when it's done, do you want to Open it straightaway, or just file it somewhere?" This is probably to help provide more protection against viruses, which Macs aren't really bothered by. So what Safari does is to download it when you ask, but there is also a Preference to check which asks "Open safe files after downloading?"
I've always found that PDFs open in a webpage, Zip files open automatically, Rar files don't ...

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