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Re: [Q] Changing default name in a FORM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Naumann - ESO Garching +49)
Tue Oct 8 07:43:06 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 13:38:10 +0200
From: Michael Naumann - ESO Garching +49 89 32006 430 <mnaumann@eso.org>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Maurizio Codogno wrote:
> I have a script which selects a file and send it to the user. It
> is accessed via a form, with action POST.
> Unfortunately, the file is sent with the form's name as default name,
> and the user should rename it by hand.
>
> Does HTTP/1.0 have any header line which can be used to overcome it?
Try sending
Content-type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext"
HTTP header fields in the response of your script. This
at least works with Netscape Navigator since version 2.0
Although not specified in the HTTP 1.0/1.1 drafts the
the definition of Content-Disposition: can be found in
http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1806.txt
<michael
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