Re: HTTP header suggestion/request

Once upon a time Larry Masinter shaped the electrons to say...
>While I support using 'content-disposition' to suggest a file name,
>the ultimate choice of the file type & extension should be determined
>by using the Content-Type, not the suggested name.

What about 'application/octet-stream' - which is used a great deal to
download binary source, which much of the time is not an executable file.
There is no safe assumption with this Content-Type:

You can develop a complex interrelation - when does Content-Type take
precedence, when does Content-Disposition?

-MZ
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