Pauli Ojanpera wrote: > Just thought this would be an interesting read for someone. Nothing special. > > Appendix A: MIME Type Detection in Internet Explorer 4.0: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp Being slightly OT, this is one of the most ignorant, brain dead ways in which Microsoft is violating the RFCs. The idea of creating a client-side workaround for misconfigured web servers is just ridiculous and creates all sorts of problems, especially when you're trying to offer ways of automatically saving content that is recognized by the URL moniker, such as PDF files... I remember from a programming project a while ago that this behavior was not limited to the so-called "ambiguous" MIME types (btw, what *exactly* is ambiguous about "text/plain"? One might argue in the case of "application/octet-stream", even though I doubt it, but "text/plain"? Ambiguous where?). Jan
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