[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

At 17:29 20/12/99 -0600, you wrote:

>AFAIK, this is a client side preference. Something in windows browsers
>with 'always open this type of file with XXXX application'.
>If you have them delete the mime types from their preferences, it will
>always ask them if they want to save or open.

Unfortunately there is no way to tell every possible visitor to the site to 
change their MIME settings :)


I thought about having the web server set an obscure binary mime type along 
the wire as an HTTP header, but it seems IE decides it is a Word document 
simply based on the .doc extension..


Oliver.

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