<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jonas Sicking <span dir="ltr"><jonas@sicking.cc></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Boris Zbarsky <<a href="mailto:bzbarsky@mit.edu">bzbarsky@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2/23/10 1:12 PM, Jose Fandos wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> 2) A multipart response with the files as parts, each part having<br>
>> "Content-Disposition: attachment".<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> as far as I know, and I could be wrong, this would suffer from what I<br>
>> described in a), i.e. there would be a dialog propping up to accept each<br>
>> downloaded file.<br>
><br>
> Currently yes, but that seems like a UI issue, not a spec issue. Nothing<br>
> _requires_ that behavior of UAs.<br>
><br>
> I'd prefer just having a header in multipart responses to flag that all the<br>
> files should probably be saved to the same location, or fixing UAs to only<br>
> prompt once, to inventing yet another package format here.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Indeed, if this can be fixed with no changes to specs that would be ideal.<br>
<br>
For a multipart response it seems like the UA is free to prompt in any<br>
way it sees fit. However one problem with a multipart response is that<br>
the UA doesn't know the number of files, or their types and sizes,<br>
until all files have been downloaded, right? If there was a way to<br>
indicate this information up front then I think we're good to go.<br>
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/ Jonas<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Definitely a step in the right direction. I'll file a bug for Firefox... what about Chrome/Safari/Opera?
<div><br></div><div>/J</div>