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Re: Monkeypede
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:56:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Tim Courtney writes:
Ok. MSIE 5.0 still tells me I'm attempting to open the file "ldraw.cgi."
I'm trying this on two computers.
[...]
I think this is a Windows/IE problem, not a LUGNET problem. :-(

Well, it's a LUGNET problem even if it's an MSIE bug, right?  :-)

I think there's another thing we can try.  I remember reading once that MSIE
in its infinite wisdom sometimes ignores MIME types and gleans the file type
from the extension in the URL -- and you can trick it into doing the right
thing by using a faux URL parameter.

Something to try:

What happens if you type the following into your URL bar?--

   http://news.lugnet.com/news/ldraw.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat.models:1812&poo.ldr

--Todd



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  Re: Monkeypede
 
(...) Hmm. (...) "Article lugnet.cad.dat.model...812poo.ldr not found on server." -Tim (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Monkeypede
 
(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Monkeypede
 
(...) Ok. MSIE 5.0 still tells me I'm attempting to open the file "ldraw.cgi." I'm trying this on two computers. The second computer, which doesn't have file associations configured for LDraw stuff, asks me what program to open the file in. I select (...) (22 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)

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