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

Zip it and serve the .zip file through your link. You'll get your save
dialog.
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Lonnie W. Kraemer
Web Application Development
http://www.lkraemer.com
mailto:lonnie@lkraemer.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Lineham" <oliver@lineham.co.nz>
To: <thelist@lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [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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