Re: IE, Word documents and Content Types

At 11:36 PM +0100 1/4/07, Jochem Maas wrote:

Roman Neuhauser wrote: # ceo@l-i-e.com / 2007-01-03 15:48:31 -0600:

On Wed, January 3, 2007 2:52 pm, Philip Thompson wrote:

I have a form where a user can upload different types of documents. A valid file type they will be able to upload is a Word Document. However, when I view the $_FILES 'type' of a word document in Internet Explorer, it says it's type 'application/octet-stream' instead of 'application/msword' or 'application/vnd.ms-word'. It works fine in Firefox and Safari. Any ideas why IE does this and/or how I might be able to get around this?

IE does this because MS is not interested in interoperability.

Back this statements with some references, will you? richard's practical experience in dealing with this things is nonsense? he has been dealing with this kind of stuff [I'm referring just to his experience/work with php for the purpose of this reply] for longer than most of us have even heard of php - and for companies that most of us would give our right arm to work for. his rant is based on lots of experience on how to make things that work, rather than making that should work because they adhere to any/every given standard (but don't work because of any number of real world situations) I would strongly suggest you tone down your rather acidic comments directed at richard (this was not the first) - he is one of the most valued and respected people on this list, he's helped more people improve their skills than most of us have written lines of code ... throwing random nasties at him really won't win you any friends, conversly richard has made *lots* of friends within the php community. he has earned the right to occasionally offer his personal slant on a situation. call me protective, I don't mind, richard has earned my respect twice (and then some) ... and this is the result. if you have something serious to add or refute with regard to richard input then do it properly - if you end up teaching him something, you'll find that he is very much open to taking what you have to offer on board and even go so far as to promptly adjust an 'advice'/'article' he might have lying around according to his newly aquired knowledged.

Amen to that -- but I think your words fall on troll's ears. tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com