What IE does is documented. You just have to dig a little to find it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp
At 10:55 AM 11/03/2000 -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
<snip>
>Netscape trusts the accuracy the mime type reported by the Web server.
>Period. If it is wrong, then Netscape handes the file wrong.
>
>IE starts with this same mime type, but also does some (undocumented, to my
>knowledge) analysis of the file itself to see if a text designation is
>plausible, then overrides it to binary if the plausibility tests fail. This
>is why some sites advse people having problems with downloads to try IE
>(basically, so the site managers can be lazy about configuring their
>mime-type lists properly).
<snip>
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