{"id":445,"date":"2004-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/378\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T22:00:00","slug":"378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/378\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer &#8222;contype&#8220; user agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/ix\/\" title=\"iX - MAGAZIN F\u00dcR PROFESSIONELLE INFORMATIONSTECHNIK\">iX<\/a> article (8\/2004, p. 116) mentions some quite strange Internet Explorer behaviour which affects dynamically generated PDFs &#8211; there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293792\" title=\"293792 - PRB: Three GET Requests Are Sent When You Retrieve Plug-in Served Content\">MS knowledge base article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;To work around this limitation and to considerably improve the performance of your application, watch for the &#8222;contype&#8220; userAgent request and only return the content-type.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, the same iX article points out that JSP (Java Server Pages) are &#8211; by design &#8211; unable to stream out binary data. Now how dumb is that? (Remember this for the next JSP vs. PHP debate&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An iX article (8\/2004, p. 116) mentions some quite strange Internet Explorer behaviour which affects dynamically generated PDFs &#8211; there&#8217;s an MS knowledge base article: &#8222;To work around this limitation and to considerably improve the performance of your application, watch for the &#8222;contype&#8220; userAgent request and only return the content-type.&#8220; On an unrelated note, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}