Re: Plain text files in internet explorer

From: Magnus Bodin (magnus@bodin.org)
Date: 09/02/02 

Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:39:00 +0200
From: Magnus Bodin <magnus@bodin.org>
To: Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>
> Is this interpretation some idiosyncracy of Microsoft's or is it actually
> an RFC-supported 'correct' interpretation of the text/plain MIME type?

It is M$-only. See my other mail.
It decides for itself. If a textfile starts with 'GIF89a' it *IS* a picture.
Same with other stuff. Sort of "we do what you mean". 

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