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Yes, and regardless of the mime-type if I send a CSV file without a .csv
extension, then IE tries to render it directly rather than launching excel
properly like Netscape does.

I really hate the fact IE doesn't respect MIME types.


In ott.online Aaron Fillion <afillion@home.com> wrote:
> Netscape has always been more based on standards than IE.

> One example of where this does not help on the win32 platform is in the way
> Netscape handles MIME types. Netscape uses MIME types supplied from the server,
> IE ignores MIME types. The end result, a Unix web server that has its MIME types
> improperly configured causes Netscape to incorrectly download files in ASCII
> mode rather than binary. IE just ignores that MIME type and downloads the file
> in binary mode. Selecting Save as... does not help, the file will still download
> incorrectly when using Netscape.

> Standards are not always a good thing.








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