Re: [stella] the new dig (beta)

Subject: Re: [stella] the new dig (beta)
From: Erik Mooney <erik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:26:25 -0500
>When I screen-scrape I register each attachment by the original name but 
>only store a URL that points back to biglist.  There is no mechanism that I 
>know of that can fool the browser into renaming the file during 
>transfer.

There is, and no scripting required.  Get the server to add an HTTP header
such as this:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.bin

5.0 and later series browsers will recognize that syntax and open a
download dialog box with the specified filename suggested.
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