[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags from Michal Zalewski on 2011-05-01 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from May 2011)

From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 10:02:22 -0700
Message-ID: <BANLkTinfc2at__2ig+MW0UVugcoskxp4Uw@mail.gmail.com>

> At least in the case of Firefox for that particular case on Windows the
> filename will be sanitized...

Yes, but Firefox is an exception, not a rule; and even that mechanism
is very imperfect (it relies on explicit mappings that are not
guaranteed to be in sync with other OS components; when downloading a
less known MIME type, like image/jpeg2000, the user is still in
trouble).

/mz

Received on Sunday, 1 May 2011 10:02:22 UTC