Posted by John Dunlop on 05/28/06 17:05

Bouffa:

> I suppose you all know force-download scripts.

I don't believe I do. I don't believe there's any such things. Yes,
there's things that might be called force-download scripts, but that
doesn't really make them scripts that force downloads, does it?

The success, if you can call it that, of the kind of script I think
you're talking about rests on a set of ifs: if the user-agent is
configured this way, then... if the user-agent is configured that way,
then... There's too many conditions to be met for me to be comfortable
with 'force'.

Also, alarm bells should ring when you see that such scripts are most
sucessful if they misrepresent the data, by which I mean having
Content-Types that don't tell the MIME type.

--
Jock

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