Paul Bourke <pdb### [at] swineduau> wrote:
> Hmmm, is that widespread? 

  It's a problem with IE. It does not care about the mime type of the
file but tries to "guess" what it is by the extension of the file name
and its contents (thus breaking all possible RFCs about this out here).

  (This is the reason why if a broken server sends eg. a .zip file with
the text/plain mime type IE will open it with winzip (or whatever) instead
of showing it as plain text as every other browser does. This has the
negative effect that people will think the other browsers are broken,
while it's the server which is broken and IE is breaking the standards
by ignoring the mime type. It discourages server maintainers to fix their
servers because they will not be aware of the true reason why their file
is not showing in the other browsers. This also has the effects that there
have been tons of IE exploits related to this: Sen a file with the image/jpeg
mime type, with a .jpg extension, but containing vbscript, and some older
IE version will execute the vbscript instead of showing a broken image
icon like every other browser does...)

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