- From: Michael Naumann - ESO Garching +49 89 32006 430 <mnaumann@eso.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 13:38:10 +0200
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Maurizio Codogno wrote: > I have a script which selects a file and send it to the user. It > is accessed via a form, with action POST. > Unfortunately, the file is sent with the form's name as default name, > and the user should rename it by hand. > > Does HTTP/1.0 have any header line which can be used to overcome it? Try sending Content-type: application/octet-stream Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext" HTTP header fields in the response of your script. This at least works with Netscape Navigator since version 2.0 Although not specified in the HTTP 1.0/1.1 drafts the the definition of Content-Disposition: can be found in http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1806.txt <michael -- ** Michael Naumann * ESO * mnaumann@eso.org ** http://www.eso.org/~mnaumann/
Received on Tuesday, 8 October 1996 07:38:23 UTC