On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:48 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > The server tells the browser the type of application to use and I > think that the browser can be configured to override this to some > degree but I have never succeeded. To be pedantic, that's not correct. The server identifies what type of data it's sending, and the client is (locally) configured to use the appropriate application for that data. e.g. For the stupidity of serving out an MS-Word document, the MIME type would inform the client that it's getting a MS-Word document, and the client would use the default/preferred application to open it. Which may be MS-Word on Windows, Open Office on Linux, or something else. It'd be pointless trying to tell Fedora to use the MS-Word application. That's why MIME typing works the way that it does. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
