I'm not sure how that interacts with the internal URL svn uses --- e.g.,
those /repos/!svn/* URLs that sometime appear in error messages.
kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote on Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:14:18 -0500:
> IE7/8 do not like to correctly "open" MS office .docx files served
> directly
> from a svn repo with the default svn mime type. They will only allow you
> to save them since it determines they are zip files.
>
> The obvious solution is to just add the correct svn:mime-type, which works
> fine, although it requires changes on every client if you want to use auto
> props.
>
> I was also able to do the following change on my apache 2.2 server to
> override
> the default Content-Type header value. (You must have previously loaded
> the apache headers module for this to work...)
>
> <IfModule headers_module>
> # Fix docx handling for IE7
> SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.docx$" docx_file
> Header set Content-Type
> "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"
> env=docx_file
> </IfModule>
>
> docx files now are identified as word documents and the user can "open"
> them from IE7/8 without having to save an intermediate copy first.
>
> The biggest downside I can see is that this will always override the
> Content-Type for .docx files, including any values set by the user
> using the svn:mime-type property. Anyone see any obvious other problems?
>
> Kevin R.
Received on 2011-08-03 18:22:00 CEST