- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 07:07:38 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@w3.org
Sigh, this belongs in the FAQ. Maybe it belongs in the revision of the HTTP/1.1 spec, too. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 04:38:10 PDT From: Michael Naumann - ESO Garching +49 89 32006 430 <mnaumann@eso.org> Organization: European Southern Observatory, Garching To: www-talk@w3.org Subject: Re: [Q] Changing default name in a FORM References: <199610080948.LAA26948@beatles.cselt.stet.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Maurizio Codogno wrote: > I have a script which selects a file and send it to the user. It > is accessed via a form, with action POST. > Unfortunately, the file is sent with the form's name as default name, > and the user should rename it by hand. > > Does HTTP/1.0 have any header line which can be used to overcome it? Try sending Content-type: application/octet-stream Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext" HTTP header fields in the response of your script. This at least works with Netscape Navigator since version 2.0 Although not specified in the HTTP 1.0/1.1 drafts the the definition of Content-Disposition: can be found in http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1806.txt <michael -- ** Michael Naumann * ESO * mnaumann@eso.org ** http://www.eso.org/~mnaumann/ ------- End of forwarded message -------
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