[DUG-TO] Extensions of downloaded files

[James An]

Hallo,

This would be my first post on DUG-TO too! I'm James.

Poking around your work, I eventually stumbled upon the site with the
draft_project_flyer.doc file. You already use clean URLs, so short solution:
set the link href to ".../system/files/draft_project_flyer.doc" (ie. remove
the ?q= part).

Long*er* explanation:
The HTTP header doesn't include the filename, so I suspect that the Internet
browsers are unable to infer a filename out of the URL:

> Internet Explorer 7 names it: draft_project_flyer_doc

Firefox 3 names it: kJaOsJh+.doc.part.doc
> Opera 9 names it: default.doc
> Chrome 1 names it: download.doc
> Safari 3 names it: draft_project_flyer_doc
>
 The reason is probably because there is no filename in the URL; The
directory is directly followed by the q parameter.

I think a majority of Drupal installations use clean URLs, but - for those
that don't - you can force a file download with a suggested filename by
setting the HTTP header field, "Content-Disposition", to "attachment;
filename=somefile.ext", where somefile.ext is your filename. I don't know
how this would fit into Drupal though.

James

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry at sentex.net>wrote:

> On 19-Mar-09, at 11:57 AM, Alison Benjamin wrote:
>
>> The name of the file, once it's downloaded, changes to something random
>> like: kJaOsJh+.doc.part (on Firefox 3)
>>
>>  This sounds like an issue with the download not completing or a bug in
> FF. What happens in other browsers?
>
> In Firefox, the download procedure goes like this:
>
> - The server sends you a file with a MIME type FF sees to be saved.
> - Firefox saves the file with a name like the above during the download.
> This is what it will use if it has to resume the file.
> - When the file is complete (and only then) it renames the file to the
> proper file name.
>
> If the download does successfully complete, it might be worth it to load up
> Firebug and inspect the HTTP headers. It should have a header indicating the
> name of the file being downloaded.
>
> --Andrew
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