- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 14:24:57 -0700
- To: "Hugo Haas" <hugo@w3.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
> When I request html40.pdf, it is obvious that my browser needs to decode > (i.e. uncompress) the file on the fly, and save it under html40.pdf. The problem is that when you save a file locally you can't use the Content-* header fields directly but instead have to express the bindings using file suffixes. However, a URI is opaque so the client makes a mistake by taking the last part of the URI as a file name. The reason is that there is no guarantee that the server and the client has the same bindings between file name suffixes and media types or that all suffixes are included in the URI. The only way to make this work is if the client uses the Content-* header fields to generate a proper set of suffizes that has the right binding the local machine and give the local file a name with these suffixes. Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, mailto:frystyk@microsoft.com
Received on Tuesday, 2 May 2000 17:25:33 UTC