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Re: Plain text files in internet explorer
From: Bill Weiss <houdini () nmt edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:47:27 -0600
byron(vulndev () glob com au)@Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:15:46AM +0800:
Is it just me or is impossible to have plain text in internet explorer? http://www.charm.net/~johnh/annoying.txthttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q239750&ID=KB;EN-US;Q2 39750&FR=1 i find it strange that ie has 26 hard coded tests to determine the mime type of a document (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/moniker /overview/appendix_a.asp) with no means to disable these tests except for text/plain.
Does anyone find some of the examples they use worrying? (from #5) "As an example, this is necessary when downloading, among others, .bat and .cmd files, which are plain text files, are frequently identified by the server as 'text/plain', and have no associated MIME type in the registry. Without the final check for an associated application, these would be displayed in-pane, whereas the desired behavior is to launch the command interpreter. " Of course, any time we look at any potentially executable content, IE should short-circuit the server's preference of whether it is executed... -- Bill Weiss
Current thread:
- GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer], (continued)
- GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Roland Postle (Sep 02)
- RE: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Jason Coombs (Sep 03)
- Re: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Gerhard den Hollander (Sep 03)
- RE: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Dom De Vitto (Sep 03)
- Re: GIFs Good, Flash Executable Bad [Was: Plain text files in internet explorer] Blue Boar (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Bernie Cosell (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Eric Rostetter (Sep 03)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Chris Sandy (Sep 01)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Magnus Bodin (Sep 01)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer byron (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Bill Weiss (Sep 02)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Benjamin Elijah Griffin (Sep 03)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Pierre-Yves Bonnetain (Sep 06)
- RE: Plain text files in internet explorer Dom De Vitto (Sep 07)
- Re: Plain text files in internet explorer Pierre-Yves Bonnetain (Sep 06)