Posted by Todd Cary on 11/13/05 21:12

Marcus -

Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made!

Todd

Marcus Bointon wrote:
>
> 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

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