[viewvc-users] How get view=plaintext or view=source

I'd like to use viewvc (version 1.1.2) to view source files in our CVS repo via a "permalink" that 1) is independent of the revision (i.e. works like view=co ; revision= is not needed) but which renders as a web page, not a download, with no-markup, no-annotate view of an arbitrary text files. I.e. show just the most recent text in the file.

That is, I'd like viewvc to emit an html stream which
"wraps" a source file in HTML <pre> blocks (or optionally in GeSHI [1] or other source formatter, based on the file extension). I don't want any other annotations or CVS decoration/CVS log content - I just want to see the source as it exists in CVS. I call this view=plaintext or view=source (which do not exist, of course). (For image types, it would be OK to display the image; for binary types like PDF, the co behavior is OK)

However, for some file types view=co, IE 8 on Windows will try to download and open the registered app for that file type, even if I use viewvc/repo/path/to/file?pathrev=mybranch&view=co&content-type=text/plain . I think this is a IE bug (which means it is not likely to get fixed); it does not happen with Chrome or Firefox. But unfortunately, I can't force the IE users to switch, so I can't use view=co .

So is there some way to get just the text from the specified resource, without actually doing a checkout 

1: http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

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