M$ claims that this was fixed in IE 5.5 SP1.
They document this bug (as fixed) here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;267991
-kb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick google search shows :
http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/Book/Book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html
Send the mime type as : application/vnd.ms-project
I do this with excel using application/vnd.ms-excel and the marketing
folks love it.
So, you would have to provide a link to your modperl app that opens the
file and pushes it out with this content type.
Bonus Points : Use
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=blabla
and pre-set the name of the file on disk.
John-
John-
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:27:33 -0700
"Tim Tompkins" wrote:
> You can always set the content type to "application/octet-steam" but I
> wouldn't expect IE to honor the content type.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Tompkins
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Daupert"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:02 PM
> Subject: How do I force a 'Save Window?'
>
>
>> I have file upload working, can upload files of ascii or binary format.
>> But a problem when you browse to a page that dynamically displays
>> hyperlinks to files. Text and html files display normally in a browser,
>> and Word docs popup MS Word as a helper app, and the word doc
>> opens fine. But MS Project files popup a browser instance and MS
>> Project, and you get the usual "Enable macros" and such popups as
>> normal, but only a subset of the project displays in the browser
>> window,
>> and none of the buttons are active in the Project application. Bummer.
>>
>> How can I force a "Save File" dialog screen for selected files, so the
>
> user
>
>> will have the option to download the file, then open it in Project or
>> whatever?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help or information.
>>
>> /dennis
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