David Talkington wrote: > Are you looking for a server-side solution to this undesirable browser > behavior? If so, there really isn't one.
There is. Microsoft has something called IEAK, or the Internet Explorer Administration Kit. From the little bit of exploration I've done it seems primarily aimed at building specialized installers of IE--so folks like BT can ship aweb browser with default home page on CDROM. I suspect that there are quite a few more capabilities in the tool than that. > Internet Exploiter seems to > put a higher priority on file extensions than on MIME types when > opening documents, so if it ends in .exe, there's nothing your server > can say that will convince the browser to not try to run it, if that's > what it's configured to do. Windows 2000 Group Policies will almost certainly allow you to manipulate these settings. If not, implementing custom group policy extensions will. In any case the recent security patches IE's huge Content type labelling problems have changed how Microsoft implemented its content handling. Microsoft was finally forced to admit how large the security hole was... I don't think it will automatically run a .exe any more. Hmmm, maybe getting that Win2k MCSE was useful for something. It's kind of cool that it was contributing to a Linux list. ;-) Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
