On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:22:57AM -0700, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> > Actually Outlook Express, at any rate, does a better job these days with
> > standards than Eudora does.
> Outlook (and OE), which I will continue to collectively refer to as
> "Outhouse" as juvenile as that may be, have a peculiar interpertation of
> the Contet-Type, header for attachments.
>
> If I send an attachment with
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; filename="foo.xls"
>
> OE will ingore the "text/plain" specification and go with the .xls
> extension. While this keeps within the letter of the standard, it is
> clearly a violation of the spirit of the standard, which was designed to
> allow document exchange among heteorgeneous systems.
Many/most versions of MS IE do this as well, in clear violation
of the HTTP spec and desired behavior, cf.
Common User Agent Problems
http://www.w3.org/TR/cuap
3.2 Respect the media type of a resource if one is explicitly
given using the Content-Type HTTP header.
(and sec 7.2.1 of RFC 2616, etc.)
Anyone know of something like CUAP for MUAs? Anyone else interested
in writing one (or maybe something more like the GNKSA?)
If so, do you know a good place to discuss it?
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@impressive.net>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/
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