- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:45:42 -0400
- To: "noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Just a couple of data points that might be of value, Noah ... On 10/23/06, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> wrote: > "Bob sees image on screen, right clicks to save, winds up with executable, > is unhappy." FWIW, I know that for clickable images, both Firefox and IE present right-click options to "Save Link" as well as "Save image". > The only place URI confusion seems to come in is if we additionally assume a > browser that, in violation of Web architecture (though in keeping with all > too common practice), blindly preserves the URI suffix when writing to the > OS filesystem. I don't believe that's common practice any longer. IE was patched a few years ago to save to disk using a file suffix that corresponded to the media type the file was served with (rather than using Content-Disposition or the file name). I believe that everybody else does this too now. FWIW, I think this was the bulletin; http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS01-058.mspx Cheers, Mark.
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