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Re: Plain text files in internet explorer
From: Magnus Bodin <magnus () bodin org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:06:42 +0200
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:54:16AM -0400, John Hennessy wrote:
Is it just me or is impossible to have plain text in internet explorer? http://www.charm.net/~johnh/annoying.txt If I make a text file and put it on my webserver, and put in a few lines of text and then basicly anything in <>'s internet explorer will read it as HTML. Grrrrr is all I have to say about that.
Internet Explorer decides for itself whether the sent Content-type heading is "correct" or needs to be "re-thought". It has been a known "feature" of explorer since a long time ago; see my testpage at http://x42.com/test/mime/ You e.g. can use this knowledge to send javascript as "image/gif" through firewalls that "block" evil content-types. /magnus -- http://x42.com/
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