>
> 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 :)
>
> -- x --
>
> 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.)
>
Bernhard,
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried
BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" force-no-vary
and I am using IE5 and IE5.5. I still have the same problem.
Any further hints?
Sincerely,
Yuan
