22 messages in org.w3.public-htmlUA support for Content-Disposition he...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 6:48 am | |
| Lachlan Hunt | Mar 14, 2008 7:42 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 7:50 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 7:54 am | |
| Lachlan Hunt | Mar 14, 2008 8:01 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 8:17 am | |
| Michael A. Puls II | Mar 14, 2008 9:25 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 9:38 am | |
| Brian Smith | Mar 14, 2008 11:45 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 14, 2008 12:04 pm | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 15, 2008 10:54 pm | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 16, 2008 4:02 am | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 16, 2008 11:34 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 16, 2008 12:00 pm | |
| Maciej Stachowiak | Mar 16, 2008 3:46 pm | |
| Karl Dubost | Mar 16, 2008 10:56 pm | |
| Leif Halvard Silli | Mar 17, 2008 11:45 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 17, 2008 2:35 pm | |
| Brian Smith | Mar 18, 2008 9:01 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 18, 2008 9:58 am | |
| Brian Smith | Mar 21, 2008 9:24 am | |
| Julian Reschke | Mar 21, 2008 5:07 pm |
| Subject: | UA support for Content-Disposition header (filename parameter) | |
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| From: | Julian Reschke (juli...@gmx.de) | |
| Date: | Mar 14, 2008 6:48:08 am | |
| List: | org.w3.public-html | |
Here's a problem that plagued me a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure the situation hasn't improved since then, at least not in IE. Maybe HTML5 should say something about it.
Use case: have the UA offer a "save as" dialogue, including the filename.
Mechanism: Content-Disposition HTTP header, as defined in RFC2616 (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.19.5.1>)
Example:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=fname.ext
Problem: this works fine in all browsers, as long as the filename does not contain non-Latin1 characters.
RFC 2231 (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2231.html>) defines an escaping, and that is supported by Firefox. Example:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=utf8''D%C3%BCrst.ext
IE does not support RFC 2231 (as of IE7), but allows percent escaped UTF-8, such as in:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=D%C3%BCrst.ext
However, that only works when IE is configured for UTF-8 URL encoding, which is (as far as I recall) not the default in countries using Asian languages.
Proposal: require UAs to support RFC 2231 (UTF-8 variant).
BR, Julian