- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:58:02 +0000
On 6/3/11, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 6/3/11 11:46 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >>> Note that some browsers will do weird parsing of the query params to >>> attempt to extract a "useful filename". That seems strictly worse than >>> just using Content-Disposition. >>> >> That's slightly better than just using the last non-empty path >> component, though. > > It's not, because they're not consistent about it... > Why need they be? This isn't Bittorrent. Use the last non-empty path component for a short name prone to accidental clashes, or the title for a verbose, unportable and descriptive name. It's purely a hint for user convenience (so they don't have to invent their own names or retype the title). What a file is named on a client's machine is purely the client's matter.
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