On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Magnus Bodin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:56:15PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote: > > > 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.) > > No. But MSIE will do that if it finds some html-tags in the text. > MSIE is programmed to act as it knows better than the webserver serving the > MIME-header. > > I've put up some test-examples here: http://x42.com/test/mime/ > > e.g. You cant start a textfile with the word "GIF89a" since it will be > interpreted as a gif-picture. Pure magic-numbers stuff there. Urk. Omniweb 4.0.1 does bad things too. blink1.gif: loads gif blink2: loads gif blink3.exe: loads gif nopicture.gif: on first load, error: Cannot Load Address File is not a GIF: head is 'THI', not 'GIF' I assume this is the correct behaviour? text.exe: for some reason, I can't get Omniweb to load this file. No save dialog, no content. odd. text.html: "GIF89a ====== ..." text.txt: same as text.exe. IE 5.1b1 (3408): blink*: all load as the blinken gif text.*: IE appears to be attemting to load the file as a gif. -- Aaron Whiteman -- Thoughts of graduation vaguely apply. RCW 19.190 notice: This address is located in Washington State. My opinions are mine and do not reflect the views of the University. :wq
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