Posted by Chris on 02/12/05 00:35

trlists@clayst.com wrote:

>On 11 Feb 2005 Richard Lynch wrote:
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>>BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1
>>GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf
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>Just curious, how does IE screw up the first one?
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>Tom
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IE has unique (read: non-standard) way of determining the Content-Type
of a request. The BAD example doesn't get read as a PDF by IE, no matter
what the Content-Type is. I'm not fully versed in this behavior, but I
do know that IE acts correctly if the URL (not just the text before a ?)
ends in .pdf AND the Content-Type is text/pdf .

Chris

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