It sounds like the issue already has a solution, but ...



On Oct 13, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote:

> The DSpace angle also complicates things a bit
> as they do not have any built in CSS that I could edit for this purpose.  I
> am hoping they will be amenable to the suggestions to right click and open
> in notepad because txt files are darn preservation friendly and readable
> with almost anything since they are some of the simplest files in
> computing.  Thanks for the input folks.


I'm not a DSpace user, but my understanding is that it's not a stand-alone
webserver ... which means that you may still have ways to re-write what
gets served out of it.

For instance, if you're running Apache you can build an 'output filter'.

I've only done them via mod_perl, but some quick research points to 
mod_ext_filter to call any command as a filter: 
	http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ext_filter.html

You'd then set up a 'smart filter' to trigger this when you
had a text/plain response and the UserAgent is IE ... but the syntax
is ... complex, to put it nicely:

	http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_filter.html

(I've never configured a smart filter myself, and searching for
useful examples isn't really panning out for me).

... but I thought I'd mention this as an option for anyone who
might have similar problems in the future, as it lets you mess
with images and other types of content, too.

-Joe