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

At 14:19 21/12/99 -0500, you wrote:

>You could pipe the file via a cgi to the user and use a browser sniffer
>to alter the content type & file extension if the browser was IE.
>Possibly append a 1 to the file extension so that it would be called
>sample.doc1 thereby confusing ie. The danger is that it may confuse the
>user also.

I considered that, and I do think it would be too confusing for the user.

Incidently, my customer (the one providing the documents) uses all Macs. 
They send me all these attachments in email - none of which have file 
extensions. I have to just guess the extension until I find something to 
open each file (usually they are doc's, pdf's, or tif's).

Regards,

>Mike ( at home with a cold )

Ol.  ( at home with sunburn )  isn't this trans-hemisphere/trans-season 
forum great?



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