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.
kmra...@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.
