Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

From: Oliver Bleutgen (meinbugtraqat_private)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 00:25:32 PDT

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    > In response to:
    
    >> > > IE doesn't recognize the extensions of files, which
    >> > > may contain some html code.
    
    > and:
    
    >> > 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...
    
    > I've found that IE (4.0 through 5.5) follow a certain pattern for remote
    > files:
    
    > First it checks the content-type, before any data is looked at. From here
    > it
    > does one of three things:
    >[...]
    
    Hi,
    
    FYI,
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp
    
    might be of interest....
    
    
    cheers,
    oliver
    



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