Re: Problem in IE's File Type Recognition

knight4vn_at_yahoo.com writes:

>I found out one way to make Internet Explorer ver 6.0 recognize incorrectly
>type of any particular files. E.g one file named "abcd.exe" is Application
>type but we can force the IE browser to understand that file is "Image/JPG"
>or "Image/Gif" and so on ..

Isn't this well-known? Because so many sites incorrectly identify content, MS
made IE able to dig into content to recognise the true type in order to make
broken sites "work". There's a config option buried somewhere deep down where
you can turn this "intelligence" off ("Open files based on content, not file
extension"), but it's enabled by default.

Peter.
Received on Jul 26 2006