scratch wrote:Dunderklumpen wrote:If a file is being sent out as plain text, has characters in it that says that it most likely is not a text file - would it be possible to check the extension of the filename (.rar, .wba etc. etc.) and then let the user decide what to do with it?
I think that´s what "another" browser is doing....
nope, the other browser determines type for all things, not just binary things. so, for example, if you have an html doc sent out as text/plain, IE still displays it as HTML. with this behavior, it would be displayed as plain text still. I think that if anything is going to be done, it should just pop up a dialog saying it claims to be plaintext but seems to actually be binary, so the server is probably misconfigured. then it could allow the user to either view it as text or save it.
Ok, that would also work and it sounds as a good workaround. Thanks for the info on "the other browser"