Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 11/13/05 21:27

Todd Cary wrote:
> Marcus -
>
> Many thanks! I did not know that MIME-Type. Change duly made!

You're not suggesting that you actually set the MIME-Type to
application/force-download, are you?


>
> 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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