Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

[Oliver Bleutgen <meinbugtraq () gmx net>]

> 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