[lug] CGI Generated PDFs and MS Explorer 5.5 Problems...
rm at mamma.varadinet.de
rm at mamma.varadinet.de
Wed Mar 28 05:24:36 MST 2001
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:10:12AM -0700, George Sexton wrote:
> One thing that I can tell you from experience is that IE 5.5 ( and I assume
> lower) looks more intently upon the URL extension than the mime type.
>
> For example:
>
> Url: http://www.mycompany.com/x/x/file.asp
>
> that sets the mime type to be application/excel
>
> will not work. You have to have the file name be file.xls
>
> The work-around is to create the file in a directory and re-direct the browser
> to a URL with the correct extension. Yet another example of MS not following
> the RFCs.
I agree, i had the same bad experience with URLs with an XML ending
but a content type of text/html. This was with Netscape, so they both
seem to act up ;-)
One cheap solution is to give the CGI a 'proper' ending like '.pdf'
Ralf
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