Re: [OT] Content-Disposition to change type and action?

[Ged Haywood <ge...@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Issac Goldstand wrote:

> Ged wrote:
> > IE is particularly fond of ignoring Content-type.  If the file is called
> > something.html or something.htm I've found IE will treat it as html even
> > if you say it's text/plain in Content-type.  Ugh.
> 
> no - that only happens when you supply text/* (and possibly image/*).  I've
> had reasons to force internet explorer to do what I want (down, boy! :-) )
> and after a bit of hassle, I usually can just by setting the content-type in
> a way it likes (which is uslally compatible with the other browsers, too).

Sorry, I have to disagree.  I was so surprised when it happened I verified
it by snooping the network.  I'm not saying it's all versions, I think it
was 5.0 but I can't remember I'm afraid.  Was only a couple of months ago.

73,
Ged.