- From: Kevin J. Dyer <kjd4951@aries1.draper.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 11:57:36 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, kdyer@draper.com
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org, koen@win.tue.nl, megazone@livingston.com, rens@century.com, sdorner@qualcomm.com
On Nov 9, 1:45am, Larry Masinter wrote: > Subject: Re: HTTP header suggestion/request > There's been some discussion of revising RFC 1806 & moving it onto > standards track. Perhaps the applicability in HTTP/1.x could be > discussed in the revision? > > Larry > >-- End of excerpt from Larry Masinter IMHO Larry's right. More documents are being downloaded indirectly via scripts or server modules every week. There needs to be a method by which the server or an agent can instruct a UA to save a certain filename with the correct filetype and ask the user if he/she wants to view it. RFC 1806 has such a structure and is one I believe belongs in HTTP/1.x. The point about correct filetype is important to the MAC community and to the Win95/NT community to a lesser degree. Otherwise downloaded files become some unknown type and creator and the end user has to hunt around to find the correct application. This cycles back to the discussion on filetype registry et al and content negotiation. All of this needs to addressed in order to minimize the amount of hacks that have to done in order to work around a UA that thinks it knows better. Kevin -- ============================================================================= Kevin J. Dyer Draper Laboratory MS 23. Email: <kdyer@draper.com> 555 Tech. Sq. Phone: 617-258-4962 Cambridge, MA 02139 FAX: 617-258-2121 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lesson learned by a user: "Beware geeks bearing GIFs" =============================================================================
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