I telneted into the link I gave below and here is the RESPONSE: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:26:52 GMT Cache-Control: private Connection: close Content-Type: application/octet-stream Set-Cookie: B=48be9l0t0oivt&b=2; expires=Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.yahoo.com "WCG",15.625,"11/10/2000","1:57PM",-1.8125,17.375,17.375,15.625,671100 So you can see that they are using the MIME type of application/octet-stream. They also set a cookie. I hate cookies. Troy -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Bleutgen [mailto:myzope@gmx.net] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 12:37 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] Generating text/csv from DTML method, Mime Type?

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.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WCG&d=v1 Look, my stock is falling! Actually, if you look at the link below and to the right of the table, you'll see a download spreadsheet link. Yahoo uses a &e=.csv to set the extension. Presumably, the e value is for extension.

That isn't silly, it corresponds exactly with the description you can find at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/overview/appendix_a.as p There term silly seems much more suitable for that, btw. Btw., it shows that changing the extension to .csv won't help until one has registered an application for .csv-files in windows. And in fact, the "spreadsheet"-link showed up in my IE, no download window came up... cheers, oliver