Re: Content-Disposition next steps

Perhaps, but it depends on how Google sniffs the UAs. And I don't think it affects the spec.


On 16/12/2010, at 9:40 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 15.12.2010 21:19, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote:
>> ...
>> Before rushing to remove it (as an optional 'fallback') , I'd like to
>> have some 'numbers' about what web servers do (FYI, some Google products
>> emit RFC 2047 for Firefox and Chrome at the moment, but I guess Google
>> has to switch over to RFC 5987 for Firefox and Chrome). I'm not sure
>> whether the cost of supporting it is larger than the benefit.
>> ...
> 
> Indeed. GMail seems to use RFC2047-encoding (when saving an attachment with non-ASCII characters in the filename) for Firefox (and likely for Chrome as well).
> 
> So it's unlikely that UAs can remove this until this get fixed.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 

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Received on Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:37:25 UTC