Posted by Marcus Bointon on 11/13/05 16:20

On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:17, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

>> seem to do that. I just tried "application/text" since I use
>> "application/pdf" for other applications.
>
> Whatever it's giving the user the ability to do, it's probably
> because the browser doesn't recognise the (invalid) MIME-Type.

Quite - it's right up there with 'application/force-download'. If you
want to suggest (the final choice is not yours to make) that a
browser might download something instead of displaying it, set an
appropriate content-disposition header instead of setting the wrong
type.

Marcus
--
Marcus Bointon
Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture
marcus@synchromedia.co.uk | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk

[Back to original message]