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Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG


From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul () umr edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:56:15 -0500

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.)

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul () umr edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
CIS - Systems Programming                Fax: (573) 341-4216


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