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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 > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com