IE5 totally ignores Content-Type was RE: IE5.0 does not conform to RFC2376

[Jonathan Borden]

>
> I believe that IE 5.0 does not conform to RFC2376 (XML Media Types),
> of which I am a co-author.
>
> As for the XML media type "text/xml", the charset parameter in the
> MIME header is authoritative.  Encoding declarations have to be ignored
> so that transcoding is possible.
>
> However, IE 5.0 appears to always ignore the charset parameter and use
> the BOM or encoding declaration only.  Therefore, IE 5.0 does not
> conform to
> RFC 2376.
>
	The release version of IE5 is *totally* ignoring the content-type of many
files returned via ASP for me (including text/plain) ... I think it is just
broken... for example my XMTP app worked correctly under IE5b2 ... now to my
dismay it is broken under IE5 release see: http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net and
browse the XMTP board.

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net


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