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

	Not that I'm defending the folks in Redmond for this, but AFAIK,
since IE is now becoming more and more part of the OS and less and less a
stand-alone web browser, it's pulling the file type from the OS as defined
in the registry, which is based upon file extension.  The MIME type is part
of it, but ultimately it's the extension that defines the file in the
Windows world.  So unless Microsoft pulls IE apart from Windows, we're stuck
with how Windows deals with the files and not the browser....

Aaron  :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Lineham [mailto:oliver@lineham.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 6:48 PM
> To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser
>
> 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.