[10414] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP header suggestion/request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Sat Nov 9 23:58:49 1996
To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 20:33:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: kdyer@draper.com, www-talk@w3.org, koen@win.tue.nl,
megazone@livingston.com, rens@century.com, sdorner@qualcomm.com
In-Reply-To: <96Nov9.122044pdt."130"@palimpsest.parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Nov 9, 96 11:20:44 am
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Larry Masinter shaped the electrons to say...
>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.
What about 'application/octet-stream' - which is used a great deal to
download binary source, which much of the time is not an executable file.
There is no safe assumption with this Content-Type:
You can develop a complex interrelation - when does Content-Type take
precedence, when does Content-Disposition?
-MZ
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