On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Yuan P Li wrote:
> > I agree, but in the next major release I may do something about it. The
> > way I feel about these things is that it's not worth it to put together a
> > fix just for that, but I think if I set the MIME type always to
> > application/octet-stream, it might make MSIE happy. But again, that's
> > going to have to wait for the next major release, whenever that'll be.
>
> Would you please give me a pointer to how to "set the MIME type always to
> application/octet-stream"? I really need to get my site to work for majority
> of users.
>From http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/known_client_problems.html. Maybe
this works for 5.x, too? (I have not tested it :)
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MSIE 4.0 mishandles Vary response header
MSIE 4.0 does not handle a Vary header properly. The Vary header is
generated by mod_rewrite in apache 1.3. The result is an error from MSIE
saying it cannot download the requested file. There are more details in
[PR#4118].
A workaround is to add the following to your server's configuration files:
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0" force-no-vary
(This workaround is only available with releases after 1.3.6 of the Apache
Web server.)
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Bernhard
