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contype UserAgent requests in Internet Explorer

Submitted by johnny on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 17:20

Requests made by Internet Explorer that set the UserAgent header to "contype" is IE's attempt to figure out the content type of a file that needs to be retrieved.

This usually happens when you embed some type of object into a page, for example a swf or a pdf viewer.

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Flash ExternalInterface not working in Internet Explorer

Submitted by johnny on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 17:08

There are a few items you need to make sure are done correctly in order for flash ExternalInterface to work correctly in IE:

1. The object tag needs to have the correct clsid attached
2. If flash is loaded dynamically in the page as opposed to being written in the initial html, the object tag must have an id.
3. In order to access javascript with same permissions as you would have the js code directly in the page, you need to have . make sure allowscriptaccess is written just like that with no capital letters

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How to remove iframe border (Internet Explorer)

Submitted by CoolGoose on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 13:07

Ok so any normal human will add the following inline css
style="border:0"
to remove the border from an iframe.
The problem is that it doesn't work on IE 6.

You have to use the following iframe attribute
<iframe frameborder="0"/>
and you'll get rid of the 3d looking border.

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IE doesn't start cookies in iframes

Submitted by johnny on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 01:29

If you're using iframes and it appears you cannot start sessions or set cookies in Internet Explorer (IE), then most likely you have an issue related to the P3P header.

In PHP you'll probably be able to fix the problem by adding the following line at the beginning of your script (for other languages find and use the equivalent):

header('P3P: CP="ALL ADM DEV PSAi COM OUR OTRo STP IND ONL"');

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