On 1/4/06, Markus Eberle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > [...] What mechanism is used by IE, what triggers IE, to launch > > a PDF viewer? Is it the doctype? Or the content-type? > > Most of the time the IE honors the content-type, if this tells it is pdf, > the > pdf application is launched. > Perhaps you have a rare occasion, in which the wrong content-type is sent?
That was my also my guess, but the content-type is set to 'text/html;charset=UTF-8' and never changes. Just in case: Are your sure, the user, who sent the screenshot is not > kidding > you? Yes, I am sure. A few weeks ago I received the same complaint. At that time it sounded too weird to be real, so I dismissed it without having a look at it. Marcel
