Re: Vocabularies issues

From: Norman Gray <norman-at-astro.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:47:08 +0000

On 2008 Jan 31, at 15:27, Tony Linde wrote:

> Or http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ivoa/vocabularies/issues.html
> to those of us without extension-guessing browsers :)

Heh. Well as it happens, I slightly stuffed up the internal redirection, so by accident it turns out that .../issues.doc, .../ issues.wibble.exe and so on all return exactly the same content, with exactly the same (correct) content-type.

A browser which guesses extensions in this way is broken, and the bug should be reported (this is IE, right? OK...). Since the content- type is present in the HTTP response, the browser is explicitly forbidden from either sniffing the content or guessing based on the extension. In other words, it's because IE _is_ an extension-guessing browser that it's stuffing up.

See you,

Norman
[deep world-weary sigh, as he dismounts his Thursday hobbyhorse]

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Received on 2008-01-31Z16:50:21