Can any experts on this list explain to me why, despite the 1,000,000 places that application/octet-stream is documented to work, and has always worked, since Mosaic 1.0 days, people manage to find these goofball Content-type: headers that are supposed to work, but only work in a handful of browsers, and then they write tutorials as if it's the Right Way, and then those tutorials get past alleged Editors, and are all you can find from Google? Anybody? Cuz I really just don't understand why I'm seeing this same damn question about 5 times PER DAY between here and IRC ##php I just do not understand what is the aversion is to: Content-type: application/octet-stream IT WORKS! ALL BROWSERS! FOR ALL TIME! TRY IT!!! Mosaic 1.0, works. IE, all versions, works. Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox, all versions, works Safari, all versions, works. Lynx, all versions, works. It JUST WORKS! Why, oh why, are we endlessly seeing posts and tutorials using other headers that DO NOT WORK ON ALL BROWSERS. * Yes, ALL browsers, including Mosaic 1.0, thank you very much. This post was partially made in the probably futile hope that maybe somebody will find it and use it so I don't answer this question 5 times again tomorrow. Thank you. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
