[22002] in bugtraq
Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Whiteman)
Mon Jul 30 02:40:55 2001
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Aaron Whiteman <aaronw@wsu.edu>
To: Magnus Bodin <magnus@bodin.org>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010729132819.J325@bodin.org>
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:56:15PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > > 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.)
>
> No. But MSIE will do that if it finds some html-tags in the text.
> MSIE is programmed to act as it knows better than the webserver serving the
> MIME-header.
>
> I've put up some test-examples here: http://x42.com/test/mime/
>
> e.g. You cant start a textfile with the word "GIF89a" since it will be
> interpreted as a gif-picture. Pure magic-numbers stuff there.
Urk. Omniweb 4.0.1 does bad things too.
blink1.gif: loads gif
blink2: loads gif
blink3.exe: loads gif
nopicture.gif: on first load, error:
Cannot Load Address
File is not a GIF: head is 'THI', not 'GIF'
I assume this is the correct behaviour?
text.exe: for some reason, I can't get Omniweb to load this file. No
save dialog, no content. odd.
text.html: "GIF89a ====== ..."
text.txt: same as text.exe.
IE 5.1b1 (3408):
blink*: all load as the blinken gif
text.*: IE appears to be attemting to load the file as a gif.
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