Quoting Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [26 Feb-02 10:45]: > When a CGI scripts prints an XML file to IE, it renders it as > plain text!!! But when it GETs an XML file with the xml > extension it renders it with collapse/expand view. Wonder if > anyone has an angle on this. How can one tell IE from a CGI to > collaps/expand? I tried different mime types.. IE simply seems > to ignore it!!!
IE tries to be "intelligent", and use the file extension, rather than the content-type header, to determine what to do with a file. Try invoking your script with something like .xml at the end (eg., www.foo.com/cgi-bin/script.pl?stupid-broweser=xml), and see what happens. (darren) -- Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
