[thelist] text/plain vs IE & Opera

[Simon Willison]

Marek Kilimajer wrote:

> I want to keep plain text formating of the output, so I send out 
> Content-Type: text/plain header, this works fine in mozilla, but IE and 
> Opera want to download the file. Still if I point the two browsers to a 
> .txt file, they display the file as expected.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Does the file you are trying to serve as plain text include anything 
that looks like HTML? If so, it looks like you're being caught out by 
the IE bug/feature[*] whereby it will ignore the content type header and 
try to render it anyway.

Cheers,

Simon

[*] - see heated discussion on this list a month or so ago