Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/21/50 11:37

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, me@privacy.net wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:22:44 GMT, Philip Ronan
> >
> >The user already has this option. You don't need to do anything else.
>
> Yes, I realise the user already has the option of right clicking on
> the Quicktime object and saving to local disk.

How they invoke it depends on the browser and on its settings. Your
job is to honestly describe the content which you're offering.

> The question is whether the behaviour can be set to show the "run or
> save" dialog which is customary with ZIP files etc.

If that's your question, then mine would be "how do I configure my
browser to avoid this kind of interference by inconsiderate authors?"

If the user's browser consents to it, /your/ answer is the
"Content-disposition" header. Look it up for details. I still say
that Philip is right, and your job as a considerate author is to
honestly describe your content-type, not to try to second-guess what a
user might want to do with it.

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