Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

From: Oliver Bleutgen (meinbugtraq@gmx.net)
Date: 07/30/01 

Message-ID: <20010730073629.2434.qmail@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:25:32 +0200
From: Oliver Bleutgen <meinbugtraq@gmx.net>
To: devnull@jm4n.com
Subject: Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

> In response to:

>> > > IE doesn't recognize the extensions of files, which
>> > > may contain some html code.

> and:

>> > It's worse than that - even if you have a cgi script that outputs
>> > a content-type of "text/plain" - some (all?) version of IE still...

> I've found that IE (4.0 through 5.5) follow a certain pattern for remote
> files:

> First it checks the content-type, before any data is looked at. From here
> it
> does one of three things:
>[...]

Hi,

FYI,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp

might be of interest....

cheers,
oliver

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