29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
11:35 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Simon Coles wrote:
Yes, this works fine on the Mac. I suspect the difference is because on the Mac they are taking the http content types to figure out the content, but on Windows they are being lazy and using the file extension. Why they didn't use the same code I don't know.
Thats just the way Windows works. Somehow M$ chose to determine the filetype by the file extension, and the file extension only (and then they chose to _hide_ the extension by default... ;). A somehow related issue is that IE seems to prefer file extensions over any HTTP headers, MIME types and such. Mac has a forked filesystem keeping type information separately. Thus no problem with names. Cheers, Stefan