[10412] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP header suggestion/request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Sat Nov 9 15:23:23 1996
To: kdyer@draper.com
Cc: kdyer@draper.com, www-talk@w3.org, koen@win.tue.nl,
megazone@livingston.com, rens@century.com, sdorner@qualcomm.com
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(kjd4951@aries1.draper.com)
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:20:44 PST
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
# IMHO Larry's right. More documents are being downloaded indirectly via
# scripts or server modules every week. There needs to be a method by
# which the server or an agent can instruct a UA to save a certain filename
# with the correct filetype and ask the user if he/she wants to view it.
# RFC 1806 has such a structure and is one I believe belongs in HTTP/1.x.
Wait!
While I support using 'content-disposition' to suggest a file name,
the ultimate choice of the file type & extension should be determined
by using the Content-Type, not the suggested name.
Larry
