Internet Explorer Does Not Handle "Text/Plain" Content-Type as Expected (329661)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows XP
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows 2000
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 for Windows Millennium Edition
This article was previously published under Q329661 SYMPTOMS
When Internet Explorer receives an HTTP response and the Content-Type header is set to Text/Plain, the browser still performs data sampling to determine the content type.
For example, if you create the following file, and then put the file in a virtual directory (or in an Active Server Pages (ASP) page that sets the Content-Type header to Text/Plain), you see the raw XML content in the browser window when you load the file in Internet Explorer. Therefore, the XML parser is invoked because the Content-Type header changes to Text/XML.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/16/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbprb KB329661 |
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