Hi all,

One of the web sites I administer needs to serve up an XML DTD and a
sample encoding. The links are at <http://www.rets-wg.org/docs>; they're
the ones that offer a plain-text version of a DTD and a sample XML
encoding.

The files being sent have extensions of .txt, and a packet trace confirms
that the server sends them with a Content-type header of text/plain. Yet
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (and ONLY 5.0) tries to interpret these
as XML, and displays an error message.

Does anyone know of some way to work around this problem? It's definitely
an MSIE 5.0 bug, but if you're Microsoft, you can make your bugs the
standard.

-- Bruce


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