>> Not sure what you're trying to fix here. If the browser knows the handler for the media type, it's supposed to download to a temporary file and pass that to the media type handler. >That's not generally what it does. >It downloads it to a persistent file and passes *that* to the media type handler. >And depending on browser settings it may ask you where to put the persistent file. >The gist is that the browser does not know the difference between a downloaded legal document that should be stored forever in an easy to find place and a downloaded equation which is likely not very relevant for long-term use. Content-Disposition response header is how the browser knows for http: URIs. For file: URIs, nothing gets downloaded so nothing should be asked. The browser doesn’t know with ftp: URIs, but it also doesn’t know content-type. Data: URIs are always ‘temporary’. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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