RE: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action?
-Original Message- From: Wilt, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:52 AM To: 'Ged Haywood'; Issac Goldstand Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action? sorry I'm getting to this thread a bit late... in case anyone is interested, this looks like the general microsoft stance - http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q258/4/52.ASP as an aside, I found this patch one day, which allows MSIE to do the right thing for text/plain (albeit only if the EU changes his registry settings, but since I run lots of tests with text/plain it was helpful...) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q239/7/50.ASP and while looking for that reference for this post, I stumbled upon this http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q160/0/13.asp yuk... --Geoff
RE: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action?
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. added a fake parameter of like ie=x.pdf to the end of the URL IE3 would refuse Just to confirm this - I've recently had the same experience with ie5/mac calling a real media file delivered through cgi. Had to use the same ?...fakeparam=.rm cop-out. I'm sure Microsoft probably see this a feature though. Just like they've always see their blue screen of death as a feature. R. -- Rafiq Ismail Software Engineer and Systems Administrator http://www.codix.net All the best people in life seem to like Linux. - Steve Wozniak
Re: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action?
Hi there, 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. 73, Ged.
RE: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action?
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 InformationLearning) 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
