How many people noticed that mime-type functionality has been removed from IE for awhile now? IE now supposedly "sniffs" the type of file coming from the web server and then uses a windows associated program for that particular file extension. The problem comes in when you want to force a download of file (add file extension to octet-stream mime-type on web server), this flat out does not work in IE anymore! Sure there are hacks but M$ removing mime-type functionality and using the OS' file associations is crazy!
Just another example I guess of M$' web makeover!
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How many people noticed that mime-type functionality has been removed from IE for awhile now? IE now supposedly "sniffs" the type of file coming from the web server and then uses a windows associated program for that particular file extension. The problem comes in when you want to force a download of file (add file extension to octet-stream mime-type on web server), this flat out does not work in IE anymore! Sure there are hacks but M$ removing mime-type functionality and using the OS' file associations is crazy! Just another example I guess of M$' web makeover!