[Tickets #3565] Re: Attachment modification (newline structure changes)

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3565
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 Ticket             | 3565
 Updated By         | vilius at lnk.lt
 Summary            | Attachment modification (newline structure changes)
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Not A Bug
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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vilius at lnk.lt (2007-01-08 00:09) wrote:

>> 1. If user has't for example Office application installed and tries
>> to send document attachment it gets sent as text/plain. This is
>> normal because browser doesn't know file type and sends
>> application/octet-stream. IE6, IE7, FF1.5 and FF2 behaves exactly
>> this way. Only Opera 9.1 has builtin MIME detection for my tested
>> Word Document Type. This means that you can't rely on user client/OS.
>
> This is an incorrect statement.  I don't have office on my computer, 
> and FF and IE attach .doc files as application/octet-stream (exactly 
> like it is supposed to).

Yes, but apache 2.0.x and newer transforms application/octet-stream into
text/plain (see DefaultType option).

I think this issue should be mentioned on the FAQ at least.