- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:43:53 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
(3) isn't ideal, but it does perform as advertised; i.e., the UA falls back to the filename parameter. On 23/02/2011, at 8:57 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 23.02.2011 09:20, Julian Reschke wrote: >> ... >> Depending on ordering, this advice either doesn't work for Firefox >> (including FF4), or for IE8 (and below). See >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attfnboth> and >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attfnboth2>. >> ... > > Expanding on this: > > 1) We can't recommend to unconditionally *only* use the "filename*" format, as it's not supported by Safari (a), nor by IE on Windows XP (b). > > 2) We can't recommend to unconditionally send both, with "filename*" first, because it fails with IE on Windows XP (b). See <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attfnboth2>. > > 3) We can't recommend to unconditionally send both, with "filename*" second, because it fails with Firefox, even in version 4 (c). See <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attfnboth>. > > Further comments: > > (a) Related Safari bug report is <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15287>, "rdar://4727992". My understanding is that this eventually will get fixed, but we won't know until it happens due to Apple's policy with respect to announcing products. > > b) We could decide that this is not a problem because of Windows XP being phased out. > > c) This has had a bug report and patch since September 2010 (<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588781>), but unfortunately it won't be fixed in FF4. It would be awesome if the Mozilla developers would reconsider this. > > Best regards, Julian -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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