At 08:57 PM 04/10/2001 -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote
>Cynical Microsoft
>Internet Explorer, in contrast, knows full well that the world is full of
>misconfigured servers, weird file extensions, and the like ... so it
>applies
>some sort of test to the actual bitstream it receives to decide whether it
>really is text or binary [I don't know the details of this test - does
>anyone?].
See Appendix A: MIME Type Detection in Internet Explorer:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.as
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