I have an Oracle 10g application, built using Oracle PL/SQL Toolkits and PSPs, using an Oracle database with an HTML front-end (hosted by an Apache web server). When using the WPG_DOCLOAD package to add attachments to the database, the mime type for ".msg" files end up being application/octet-stream rather than application/vnd.ms-outlook.
That doesn't seem to matter using Internet Explorer (IE) 6. When downloading the file back to your PC, IE6 sees the ".msg" file name and correctly opens Outlook.
But when using IE7 the browser doesn't know what application to open that same file with, so users are forced to first save it to their local drive - and to also manually add a ".msg" file extension - because when it comes back from the database the file type is unknown to IE7.
Once it's saved as a ".msg" file (even under IE 7) Outlook will open it just fine.
How do we make IE7 open these ".msg" files? Note that opening Excel and Word files (once downloaded from the database using IE7) works flawlessly. But these Outlook files are another matter.
Thank you!
Joe