On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ged Haywood wrote: >On Wed, 30 May 2001, Issac Goldstand wrote: > > > Ged wrote: > > > IE is particularly fond of ignoring Content-type. If the file is called > > > something.html or something.htm I've found IE will treat it as html even > > > if you say it's text/plain in Content-type. Ugh. > > > > no - that only happens when you supply text/* (and possibly image/*). I've > > had reasons to force internet explorer to do what I want (down, boy! :-) ) > > and after a bit of hassle, I usually can just by setting the content-type in > > a way it likes (which is uslally compatible with the other browsers, too). > > Sorry, I have to disagree. I was so surprised when it happened I verified > it by snooping the network. I'm not saying it's all versions, I think it > was 5.0 but I can't remember I'm afraid. Was only a couple of months ago. I have to agree with Ged. IE3 browsers seemed to ignore the Content-Type header for PDF files. Our system dynamically creates PDF files on request and unless we added a fake parameter of like "&ie=x.pdf" to the end of the URL IE3 would refuse to load the file. Most IE4 builds correctly interpreted the Content-Type ... and then as soon as we began testing IE5 we noticed that the Microsoft ignorance had returned. I have a friend who is a field engineer for Microsoft. I sent a bug report through him to the Microsoft people and he basically ended up saying (not in these exact words) that they told him they had bigger fish to fry than to correct this problem. What a bummer! Paul E Wilt Principal Software Engineer ____________________________________________________ XanEdu, Inc. ( a division of Bell+Howell Information&Learning) http://www.XanEdu.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 300 North Zeeb Rd Phone: (734) 975-6021 (800) 521-0600 x6021 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Fax: (734) 973-0737 ____________________________________________________
