On 6/3/11 2:58 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
On 6/3/11, Boris Zbarsky<bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
On 6/3/11 11:46 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
Note that some browsers will do weird parsing of the query params to
attempt to extract a "useful filename". That seems strictly worse than
just using Content-Disposition.
That's slightly better than just using the last non-empty path
component, though.
It's not, because they're not consistent about it...
Why need they be? This isn't Bittorrent. Use the last non-empty path
component for a short name prone to accidental clashes, or the title
for a verbose, unportable and descriptive name. It's purely a hint for
user convenience (so they don't have to invent their own names or
retype the title). What a file is named on a client's machine is
purely the client's matter.
I think you completely misunderstood my mail... the point is that
browses do NOT all use the last non-empty path component; some try to
guess a filename based on the query params, in various ways.
-Boris
