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Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Neulinger)
Sat Jul 28 23:44:59 2001
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:56:15 -0500
From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>
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> IE doesn't recognize the extensions of files, which
> may contain some html
> code.
> Write a HTML file on NOTEPAD. save it as *.txt.
> upload to any server.then
It's worse than that - even if you have a cgi script that outputs a
content-type of "text/plain" - some (all?) version of IE still processes
the doc as html. (This is a real PITA when using cgi scripts that output
plain text documents sometimes containing html.)
-- Nathan
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