Hey!
>>>>>>>
The tricky part is that I.E. does content sniffing so if you send I.E. a
GIF file, it's going to display it no matter what content type you
specify and no matter what file extension you use. Stupid I.E..
>>>>>>>
I feel this is a design flaw on the part of MS I.E.. I say let the programmer
handle content types.
We are getting to the stage where everyone will need two browsers to
get everything that is required. I guess this conundrum is not totally new.
I'm still waiting for XML parser in side of Netscape.
Sans adieu,
Danny Rubis
Jason Hunter wrote:
> shivan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have your book. It's good. However, I couldn't find
> > any info about downloading a file attachment in email.
> > I am creating a servlet with e-mail functionality
> > (similar to yahoo/hotmail).
> > Please help.
>
> I'm working on adding some text in the second edition. The short
> summary is that if you send the file contents with a content type like
> application/octet-stream the browser will generally offer to save the
> file. So use something like ViewFile to do the sending.
>
> The tricky part is that IE does content sniffing so if you send IE a
> GIF file, it's going to display it no matter what content type you
> specify and no matter what file extension you use. Stupid IE.
>
> If anyone has a workaround for this, please let me know. I suspect
> there isn't one since even Yahoo Mail doesn't have a fix. They just
> make the file available and if you're using IE you have to right click
> to save certain popular types (GIF, JPEG, HTML, etc).
>
> -jh-
>
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