[22005] in bugtraq
Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Bleutgen)
Mon Jul 30 15:15:43 2001
Message-ID: <20010730073629.2434.qmail@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:25:32 +0200
From: Oliver Bleutgen <meinbugtraq@gmx.net>
Reply-To: Oliver Bleutgen <meinbugtraq@gmx.net>
To: devnull@jm4n.com
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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> In response to:
>> > > IE doesn't recognize the extensions of files, which
>> > > may contain some html code.
> and:
>> > 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...
> I've found that IE (4.0 through 5.5) follow a certain pattern for remote
> files:
> First it checks the content-type, before any data is looked at. From here
> it
> does one of three things:
>[...]
Hi,
FYI,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.asp
might be of interest....
cheers,
oliver
