IE looks at the data that is sent back and will change (for example) the
MIME type from text/plain to text/html if you send a HTML document with
the text/plain MIME type. Very stupid of them in my opinion, but what
do I know. It doesn't just look at the extension when deciding what
MIME type it will use to override what the server sent - some portion
of the data is looked at too.
Jim
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> Also try hitting the aolserver from another machine with Netscape, or a
> significantly different version of IE (I assume you use IE). I've had
> problems with IE apparently using the file extension from the URL to
> determine MIME type of the content, even when the server returns the correct
> MIME type. This occurs equally with their own IIS. You can also try typing
> the URL with http://myipaddress since it probably uses the syntax of the URL
> to decide whether to use the given MIME type or try to guess it based on
> file extension.
