[whatwg] Multiple file download

Tim Hutt tdhutt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 10:19:48 PST 2010


On 23 February 2010 18:12, Jose Fandos <iaminlondon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2)  A multipart response with the files as parts, each part having
>>    "Content-Disposition: attachment".
>
> as far as I know, and I could be wrong, this would suffer from what I
> described in a), i.e. there would be a dialog propping up to accept each
> downloaded file.

So wouldn't the solution simply be to modify this behaviour? I'm sure
one could write a patch for at least Firefox and Chrome to detect this
situation and ask for a destination for all files...



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