Re: Content-Encoding confusion -Reply

• From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
• Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:30:38 -0700
• To: "Daniel Hellerstein" <DANIELH@ers.usda.gov>, <www-talk@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000901bfb48e$74898af0$c2bb1eac@redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

> One possible solution would be for the server to include a
>  content-disposition:  response header; as in
>       Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="html40.pdf"

Content-Disposition actually has no impact on this at all. It is still
the Content-* header fields that describe the encoding, type, etc. of
the entity body so a client is no better off using the value of a
Content-Disposition header field instead of the URI for the same
reasons.

Henrik

Received on Tuesday, 2 May 2000 19:31:23 UTC