-----Original Message----- From: Magnus Bodin [mailto:magnusat_private] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 7:28 AM To: Nathan Neulinger Cc: bugtraqat_private Subject: Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG 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. It's a little DWIM (do-what-i-mean) but a little more dumb than the original Lisp-version in my opinion. /magnus -- :: Magnus Bodin ::::::.... http://x42.com/ ::::::::::::::....................... teislanorhmcp.>g-dfwvx/0b:y',"5()2168?*49zk
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