Vulnerability Development: Re: Plain text files in internet explorer

[Magnus Bodin <magnus () bodin org>]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> Is this interpretation some idiosyncracy of Microsoft's or is it actually 
> an RFC-supported 'correct' interpretation of the text/plain MIME type?
It is M$-only.  See my other mail. 
It decides for itself. If a textfile starts with 'GIF89a' it *IS* a picture.
Same with other stuff. Sort of "we do what you mean". 

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