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

At 15:33 20/12/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Create a '.htaccess' file and put the following in it:
>   AddType applications/octet-stream .doc .xls .pdf

Thanks, I'd tried that but it seems to make no difference to IE what MIME 
type HTTP calls it at all.  IE still sees the .doc extension and 
opens/shows it within the browser frame.

Kind of defeats the whole reason those MIME types were invented for in the 
first place.

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