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Re: ie5 and .doc URLs


From: olle () NXS SE (Olle Segerdahl)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:01:24 +0200


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Olivier Thereaux wrote:

xxx - "GET /_vti_inf.html HTTP/1.0" 200 3042
xxx - "POST /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.0" 302 215

Your apache probably has have FP extensions...

Don't be fooled by the .exe , obviuosly ie requests the same URI
regardless of platform....

As for why ie uses FP extensions while downloading a .doc file,
I have no clue... Probably some stupid thing like the "icon bookmarks"
stuff and stuff like that...

/olle


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