[Zope] - RESPONSE.headers Help needed
Andreas Kostyrka
andreas@mtg.co.at
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:55:16 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Mike Pelletier wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
>
> > In fact, I've had reports that seem to indicate that IE defaults to view
> > for an unknown type, and NS defaults to saving.
> >
> > Use something like application/binary or so.
>
> Urk. I hate having to lie about MIME types. If you are using a
> filesystem which supports MIME types, what the server reports is what the
> browser will save the file as. Is there any other way to indicate a document
> is to be saved?
Not that I know. I don't remember reading something like this in the the
HTTP/1.1 RFC too.
You could try playing around with JavaScript (perhaps), but that seems
(even if it works) like a worse solution than lying.
(The only OS I know that knows about file types on the FS level is MacOS,
and it doesn't know MIME types, as HFS predates MIME a bit ;) )
Andreas
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