Wow RaFaL, that's one hell of an attitude you've got there. I think you're blowing a very minor oversight on my behalf into a personal crusade against everyone =) I've been using the internet and email for a good 10 years or more, and know that you can intersperse quoted and non-quoted material for goodness sake. I takes all types I guess.
I changed the header type to application/vnd.ms-excel which auto-saves the file as an Excel document (practically guaranteed to be on most doctorate student's computers, who this site is for). So far it's worked great, even if the PC hasn't got MS Excel. Thanks for the Perl-related suggestions RaFaL. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafal Pocztarski) > Newsgroups: perl.beginners.cgi > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:33:37 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Auto-initialising a client-side download > > Shannon Murdoch wrote: >> >> Don't take offense RaFaL =) > > No, I'm just saying that you haven't read all of my message, because you > assumed that I don't know how to quote previous messages properly. But I > do, and in fact I did even before Internet was known to the public, and > that's because you will always see my comment or answer below every > quoted text in my messages. Read e.g.: > > http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html > http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mail/edit.html > http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nnq/nquote.html > http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.context.html?Email > http://www.digital-web.com/tutorials/tutorial_1999-12.shtml > http://www.iwillfollow.com/emailetiquette.html > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/9810/Page7.html > http://www.fix.no/info/message_guidelines.html > > to name a few, and you'll exactly know what I meant. > >> I tried the idea you had and as you said, Netscape automatically brought up >> a download window but Internet Explorer just displayed it's contents in the >> browser window (bugger). > > Yes, I thought so. MSIE often ignores HTTP headers. > That's a very serious bug and incompatibility with HTTP specification. > >> Any ideas? > > You have to send bug report to Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/ > > "HTTP uses Internet Media Types in the Content-Type header field in > order to provide open and extensible data typing." - HTTP 1.0, May 1996. > > "HTTP uses Internet Media Types in the Content-Type and Accept header > fields in order to provide open and extensible data typing and type > negotiation." HTTP 1.1, June 1999. > > RFC 2616 - HTTP/1.1 (June 1999) > Sections: 14.17 Content-Type, 7.2.1 Type, 3.7 Media Types > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.txt > > RFC 1945 - HTTP/1.0 (May 1996) > Sections: 10.5 Content-Type, 7.2.1 Type, 3.6 Media Types > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945.txt > > - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
