[freenet-dev] Re: [freenet-support] IE6/XP SP2 may no longer treat text/plain as ambiguous?

[Ken Snider]

toad wrote:
> Somebody with XP SP2 and IE6, please visit the below site, and tell me
> if it redirects you to fbi.gov:

On my sandbox box I use for such testing, it does redirect to fbi.gov.


> Visit the current edition of freenetwatch:
> USK at jotJldLVFPDEnvRqfhBWsnXPQpOS~QrawxFjgsLZcFQ,xnNqE4Z~zMHmIUmqrA0oziUFSXNOAC7OhOOH4yhcBq4,AQABAAE/freenetwatch/38/
> 
> Click on the RSS feed. If you have a recent version of Freenet, this
> will produce a warning page. Click on "open the file as plain text";
> does it open the RSS feed as RSS, or does it show it as text? Same with
> "force your browser to save it to disk" and "open the file as RSS"
> please.

- save as plain text, does nothing.
- force download wants to save it as a text file, and
- open as RSS splats it out as unformatted RSS

-- 
Ken Snider