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What content-type do I use for http response headers that contain a file attachment of unknown file type?

Right now I am not specifying it and the system is defaulting to text/html which is causing some not so good results like downloading a movie on my iPhone is giving me a massive block of text so large that it crashes the browser for example. What content-type should I use? It could literally be any file type as the attachment. Content-disposition is attachment.

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Use application/octet-stream.

SLaks  2010-09-29 18:04:06
Pff, suits me right for altering 'favorite tags', my bad...
Wrikken  2010-09-29 18:30:00

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