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

[Frank Boumphrey]

When I create an object with the new dll i.e.

myDoc=server.createObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")

My object fails to recognize external DTD's!

this is so with ASP, (I reinstalled the old dll on my server), and with C
and VB programs that use the dll.

I havn't seen whether it is a problem with an activex object in a web page
yet.

This is a bug with the new DLL it worked fine with the beta2.DLL

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Borden <jborden at mediaone.net>
To: MURATA Makoto <murata at apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>; <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 7:34 PM
Subject: IE5 totally ignores Content-Type was RE: IE5.0 does not conform to
RFC2376


>>
>> 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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