[imp] Re: Help w/IMP -- IE attachment bug

[Tim Meader]

The cause of this bug seems to be one which affects IE quite often. In 
writing a web based file storage system, I came across the same strange 
issue with IE (attaching .php to the end of every download), but this time 
in Perl.  There are a couple way around this. One would be to change the 
name of the download script to not have a .php extension (obviously I don't 
think this is doable for PHP scripts though unless they are in a 
ScriptAliased directory). Another solution, and the one I chose to 
implement is to use mod_rewrite (this is all assuming that Apache is being 
used) to redirect certain URLs to your download script and don't actually 
load the script name in the browser. I realize that none of this is 
particularly helpful to the current IMP problem with this, but I just 
wanted to let everyone know that it doesn't appear to be PHP specific. 
Also, I don't believe this can be solved by merely rewriting the header 
that is sent to the browser, or anything quite so simple. If I'm wrong in 
this please let me know.

At 12:29 PM 2/4/2003 -0700, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>Quoting Paul J <paul at myitcv.org.uk>:
>
>| Upgrade to 3.2 RC1 fixed the problem. Now IE only gives the attachment a
>| strange name!
>
>This has been much improved and fixed in HEAD.  It can't be backported
>since it would break backward compatability (and might be tied in - I dont
>have the code in front of me - to the new MIME framework which also isn't
>bc).
>
>michael
>
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Tim Meader
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