[ic] correct mime type for .exe with MSIE

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> > I am trying to find out how to make MSIE download a .exe file with the
> > extension intact.  Using the IC built in file delivery mechanism, it feeds
> > the file directly to the browser, and for some reason MSIE prompts you to
> > download the file without the extension.  This is using
> > application/octet-stream as the mime type.  What it looks like is that
> > MSIE can't determine what type of file it is, and therefore can't
> > determine what extension to give it.  Since the content is fed directly to
> > the browser it doesn't have a filename in the url to go by.  If you give
> > it a mime type it knows an extension for it will name that file with that
> > extension.  Problem is there is no specific mime type for .exe that I know
> > of.  Netscape and Opera seem to work fine...

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jonathan Clark wrote:

>
> AFAIK a .exe is just an application/octet-stream. Are you specifying the
> filename in the header?
>
> In a custome download routine I do:
>
> [tag op=header interpolate=1]
> Content-type: application/octet-stream
> Content-disposition: inline; filename=[scratch file_name]
> Content-length: [scratch file_size]
> [/tag]
>
> ..which works fine for MSIE.


Great that was what I was missing.  After I added Content-disposition to
the header it works fine.  Maybe someone at Redhat could take a note to
add this modification to pages/deliver.html?

Chris


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