Sorry if this is completely off topic, I've jumped in at this point !!
It appears that only IE handles files 'embeded' in the content type
'Octet-Stream'. For example, if a normally viewable file is contained within
an octet stream the normal 'content type' / 'file type' associations are not
maintained. So a .jpg file will not even display, let alone launch an
application because all other browsers see is "Octet-Stream".
Owen
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 6:53 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Mattias Dahlberg wrote:
> > Interesting. You should get the "Open or Save" dialog. Send a mail to the
> > kfm-devel list about it.
>
> I suspect it depends on returned Content-Type. Just try to access
>
> http://johnsmith50.tripod.com/cgi-bin/System_Optimize.EXE
>
> and you get nice fullscreen of code. May be, it happens because Linux
> won't download Windows executable? :-)
>
> Anyway, IE mostly gets it right, and you expect the same of other browsers
> as well.
>
> -andrej
