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

Oliver Lineham wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. .doc is forever beholden to Word for time immemorial.

Which pretty much sucks.

What happens if you feed, say, a Mac user saved an illustrator file as
OurFile.doc (entirely possible given the way Macs are extensionless) --
and the sysadmin sets the mimetype to illustrator/eps -- will IE try to
fire up Word?

If it does, that's dumb. :-(

Idiotic Microsoft.

	- joe
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