On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> > yeah - pick an extension that IE doesn't choose to interpret instead of
> > examining the content-type mime header (stupid or malicious? you be the
> > judge) - say .iesux and use that instead of .xml. you can still use your
> > ?output= trick.
>
> what does IE5.5 do if you have a URL without an extention (such as
> /docs/news/today) but with the right MIME-type?
it goes by the mime type in that case - yet another argument in favor of
losing file extensions in URLs. you know, it'd be cool if someone could
puzzle out the best way to map extensionsless URLs to files in cocoon1 and
apache-jserv and/or tomcat and document it for the list...
- donald
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