Re: Downloading Files

I have also experienced, and been frustrated by it.  You're absolutely
right, it is a published standard and MSIE completely ignores it.  Just
another in a long list of examples why M$ has its loyal critics.

Steve

> Actually, they are supposed to respect the Web Servers mime types, which
> some browsers do not respect.
[snip]
> Case in point: let us say that you have a file with a *.txt ending. It
> should show up as a text file, right??
[snip]
> In MSIE, it does not matter, if it sees that the file ''looks'' like
> HTML, then no matter what, it by golly it going to download the file and
> display that text as HTML!!!
[snip]
> No matter what, MSIE is determined that no matter what it is told (these
> are actually published standards), the file is text/html and it will
> only show it as that. [snip]

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