Many thanks. I will use this to update the stuff on the wiki, which I doubt will take off and probably will go the way of erasure, but, heh, who knows?
Jack On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:23:07 +0800, Andrew Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to send this link along on Friday as well, but didnt have time > to find it as I was trying to get home early. (Fat chance. Still ended > up taking over an hour to hail a taxi so I didnt get home till after > midnight. Ahhh the joys of working in the IT industry, but I digress...) > > Internet Explorer will try and be smart when you link to a file and > whether it tries to show the file inline or prompt you to download it > deoends not just on the response headers you send but also on the > content of the file itself as IE will sniff whats being sent back to see > if it can recognise it. > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q260519/ > > You probably wont have to worry about all this too much as generally > things will work they way you want them to, but it can be useful to know > what IE is actually doing when you click the download link. > > If I recall correctly, mozilla based browsers dont try to do anything > overly tricky like this, .. but dont quote me on that. ;-) > > > > > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > What he said :) > > > > It comes down to the browser recognizing what the server sends back as > > the result of clicking a link or submitting a form. Normally, it > > recognizes it as an HTML page and displays it (overwriting what's > > already in the browser obviously). > > > > In the case of downloading a file though, it can tell it's a file of > > some other type, and will either pass it along to a plug-in for display, > > or ask the user what to do with it. > > > > Of course, I just repeated what Andrew said really :) > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." ~Native Proverb~ "Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." ~Hunkesni (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Sioux~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
