On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > > On 2/23/10 1:12 PM, Jose Fandos wrote: > >> > >> 2) A multipart response with the files as parts, each part having > >> "Content-Disposition: attachment". > >> > >> > >> as far as I know, and I could be wrong, this would suffer from what I > >> described in a), i.e. there would be a dialog propping up to accept each > >> downloaded file. > > > > Currently yes, but that seems like a UI issue, not a spec issue. Nothing > > _requires_ that behavior of UAs. > > > > I'd prefer just having a header in multipart responses to flag that all > the > > files should probably be saved to the same location, or fixing UAs to > only > > prompt once, to inventing yet another package format here. > > Indeed, if this can be fixed with no changes to specs that would be ideal. > > For a multipart response it seems like the UA is free to prompt in any > way it sees fit. However one problem with a multipart response is that > the UA doesn't know the number of files, or their types and sizes, > until all files have been downloaded, right? If there was a way to > indicate this information up front then I think we're good to go. > > / Jonas > Definitely a step in the right direction. I'll file a bug for Firefox... what about Chrome/Safari/Opera? /J