Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

From: Nathan Neulinger (nneulat_private)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 16:56:15 PDT

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    > IE doesn't recognize the extensions of files, which
    > may contain some html
    > code.
    > Write a HTML file on NOTEPAD. save it as *.txt.
    > upload to any server.then
    
    It's worse than that - even if you have a cgi script that outputs a
    content-type of "text/plain" - some (all?) version of IE still processes
    the doc as html. (This is a real PITA when using cgi scripts that output
    plain text documents sometimes containing html.)
    
    -- Nathan
    
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