[Tutor] Problems serving up PDF

[Tim Johnson]

* Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> [060914 17:37]:
> >   
> Sounds like it's working to me.
> > On Internet Explorer 6, Windows XP, the user experience is different.
> > IE ignores the file name, and does no progress reporting, but does
> > "understand" the file type.
> >   
> Sounds like it's working to me.
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell, it seems to me like you have some file (example .wmv)
> that I.E. is saying 'okay I know how to open this' and it tries to do 
> something with it.
> Firefox, humble as it is, admits that it doesn't know what to do and 
> just lets you download it.
> If this is the case, then it's a configuration issue with IE that's 
> making it attempt to open the file.
> You could just as well configure Firefox to automatically open these 
> files too, although
> that doesn't mean that it'll work :)
> 
> So unless you can be more specific, I'd say that it's just a difference 
> in the browser and not a problem
> with your code at all.  Do I not understand correctly?
> HTH,
 
  Hey Luke:
  I also posted this to a forum:
  One expert response reads like this:

  "I think that's just the way Mozilla acts." 

  Actually, I like the way Firefox does it. Looks like we just live
  with the differences.
  thanks again
  tim
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