10 Nov
2000
10 Nov
'00
7:12 p.m.
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Farrell, Troy wrote:
I know this sounds silly, but try making the url end with .csv I wrote a perl cgi script some time ago that spit out a csv file. When it ended with .csv, IE seemed to ignore the server's Content-type: text/html header.
Not silly! I have also seen IE prefer the file extension over any MIME type, HTTP header or whatever interoperable standard you may come up with. Welcome to the Micro$oft way of making the Internet an extension of its desktop...