In my experience not really.

In IE Version 6.0.2600... a file with mimetype 'application/vnd.ms-excel' and
an extension that is not registered for Excel resulted in openening Word (at
least for some users). Renaming the file to .xls solved the problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Altankov Peter [mailto:PAltankov@(protected)]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: How to serve static EXCEL or POWERPOINT files
> from Tomcat ?
>
>
> They are fixed in 6.0
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cox, Charlie [mailto:ccox@(protected)]
> > Sent: 12 Януари 2004 г. 19:14
> > To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> > Subject: RE: How to serve static EXCEL or POWERPOINT files
> > from Tomcat ?
> >
> >
> > Actually Mozilla and Netscape can open Excel and Powerpoint
> > based upon the .xls or .ppt extension if the mime-type is not
> > set. However IE only opens them properly if you add the
> > mime-type to web.xml. Otherwise you get a browser full of
> > garbled text. I find this most amusing. (They may have fixed
> > this in IE 6.0).
> >

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