Ben Bucksch wrote:
> 
> Nelson B. Bolyard wrote:
> 
> >Decisions about whether a file is "safe" for some purpose should be made
> >based on the MIME content type, not the file name or "extension".
> >
> Tell that MS Windows :-(.

Netscape communicator was able to ignore the file name extension and 
look up the command to run based on MIME type only and invoke the proper
program for that MIME type, regardless of the file name extension.  

If mozilla cannot do that,  ... (sigh)

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Nelson Bolyard               Netscape 
Disclaimer:                  I speak for myself, not for Netscape

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