Greg, On 1/31/12 11:10 AM, Greg Thomas wrote: > On 31 January 2012 15:48, Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >> Nathan, >> >> On 1/25/12 1:16 PM, Nathan Bubna wrote: >>> text/velocity sounds fine to me. this isn't something that i recall >>> coming up previously, so i'm pretty sure there's no official opinion. >> >> Why not text/plain? > > It used to be the case that IE, on seeing a text/plain MIME type, > would completely ignore the MIME type and guess a format based on the > filename of the download in question.
I thought it did content-sniffing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms775148%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/02/01/364581.aspx > Later versions of IE are streets ahead thatn the older versions in > many ways so hopefully this mis-feature has been corrected, but I'd > be wary of serving any file with a text/plain MIME type unless it was > called something.txt or similar. I make it a point to always have the template itself (or, usually, the servlet handling the incoming request -- like VelocityViewServlet, etc.) set the Content-Type (and the encoding as well). -chris
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