On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0500, Richard Morse wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:55  AM, Gyepi SAM wrote:
> 
> >Appending the filename to the url works with all browsers, AFAIK.
> >
> 
> Not any more.  At least, on all of my Win2K boxes, with 
> IE6-what-ever-the-latest-version-is, sending a script to the url 
> "http://.../my_script.cgi?null=null/filename.ext"; will prompt them to 
> save the file "my_script.cgi".  The null=null is required by IIS (not 
> my choice of web server), otherwise it actually tries to read it as a 
> static path.

That url won't do what you want. This one should:

 http://.../my_script.cgi/filename.ext?null=null

1. I only keep the null=null parameter because you claim it is necessary.
2. I assume that your webserver can separate path info from the URI.

-Gyepi

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