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[whatwg] "Content-Disposition" property for <a> tags

From: Dennis Joachimsthaler <dennis@efjot.de>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 23:51:43 +0200
Message-ID: <op.vv3y0hve48yz2f@dennis.fritz.box>
Am 26.05.2011, 22:58 Uhr, schrieb Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>:

> On 2011-05-26 22:54, Dennis Joachimsthaler wrote:
>> Am 26.05.2011, 22:53 Uhr, schrieb Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu>:
>>
>>> Probably no one, to a first approximation, but we were specifically
>>> talking about non-Windows systems. On Windows, as I said, Gecko forces
>>> extensions to match content types, to avoid this sort of issue in
>>> general.
>>
>> Yep, yep... If browsers implement the filename (+ extension) name  
>> changing
>> we should make it a MUST to implement security...
>> ...
>
> Like  
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp-latest.html#rfc.section.4.3>?
>
> Best regards, Julian

Ah, that sort of security is a SHOULD here, already.

We should just copy this over, it looks good.

Browsers should just use the same behaviour when encountering the function  
in
a HTML attribute.

I forsee a great future :-)


- Dennis Joachimsthaler
Received on Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:51:43 GMT

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