I ran into the same problem serving plain text fixed ascii files with no
file extension from my e3k. I had to append<pre> tags using PHP to get it to
work. The files looked fin in any OTHER browser.
Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wonsil" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: MSIE 5.0 headaches
> Bruce,
>
> I seem to remember reading somewhere that you want to set the content type
> to text/xml to display the document.
>
> Of course, when you want to display HTML, you can to use <pre> tags. The
> XML equivalent is: <![CDATA .. ]]>. Maybe you could wrap it that way.
>
> If all else fails, change you anchor from http to ftp! ;-)
>
> Mark Wonsil
> 4M Enterprises, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Bruce Toback
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:33 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: OT: MSIE 5.0 headaches
>
>
> 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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