In my one experience with DSpace about eight years ago, we considered its
UI to be nearly unusable, and used Drupal as a front end to mitigate issues
including ones like this.

Cary

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Terry Reese <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Since this is for DSpace, one option might be to just pass the Content-Type
> and Content-Disposition headers to force specific file types to prompt as
> needing to be saved.  This usually gives the user an option to just open,
> and that will force the file to be downloaded and opened within the default
> viewer associated with the file type.  I know that in early versions of
> DSpace (not sure if this still occurs), something like this was done for
> PDFs to fix an issue some browsers had serving large PDF files and
> rendering
> them in-line.
>
> --tr
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Joe
> Hourcle
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 11:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance
>
> 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
>



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