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

hrmm.. makes sense now, I just tried a little test on one of my servers
with setting a .doc extension to an octet-stream, and IE still choose
Word to open it..

But it must be what the consumer wants ehh?? ;)

.djc.

Oliver Lineham wrote:
> 
> 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.