[thelist] telling IE not to open text files
Joel D Canfield
joel at spinhead.com
Wed Sep 22 11:17:15 CDT 2004
> > On our intranet we frequently link to live documents using
> the 'file'
> > protocol, assuming the doc will open in its native
> application. Text open in IE.
> Add the content-disposition header. Set its value to
> "attachment; filename=whatever.txt" Then, set the
> content-type to application/unknown so that IE will have to
> guess which app to use.
Eh, just got to working on this, and can't make sense of it. Here's what
the link looks like:
<a href="file:\\server\path\FileName.txt">FileName.txt</a>
I have no control over the contents of the file it links to, and don't
see how headers can be affected with a link like this.
Am I missing something, or was the original problem not stated clearly
enough?
Thanks again.
joel
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