Re: IE troubles with image files

From: Jan P Tietze (jptietzeat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 15:00:46 PDT

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    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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