HTTP header to control filename?

[Ray Henry]

Is there a header I can set to give the browser a default filename for a
saved document? My script sets the ContentType but the name the browser
wants to use for the file is download.asp (the name of my ASP script). Can I
set a header with Response.AddHeader to change this?

[David Efflandt]

You can specify it for Netscape, but it will not work with MSIE which
ignores MIME headers (including Content-type:). You could use path info,
which is an extented fake path in the URL past the asp ending with the
desired filename. Example <a href="download.asp/some.jpg">download</a>.
The server will run the asp and the browser will think it is accessing the
jpg. At least that is the way it should work, but I have not tried it on
NT.

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[Ray Henry]

The download.asp/some.jpg syntax doesn't work on IIS. I tried it already...

Any other ideas?

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[Paul R. Morin]

Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "Attachment;
filename=somefilename.ext"

Should do the trick...

- Paul

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