For a little while now, I've been trying to figure out why I couldn't download video files from the website i'm working with the Android OS web browser, although I have found a work-around solution. For some reason, it seems as if the Android web browser (default OS web browser) does not properly handle the "Content-Disposition: attachment;" header from the webserver (in this case, Lighttpd). When attempting to download a file, all I was seeing with both HTC Dream and HTC Magic (most recent OS version) was that it attempted to download the file, but it couldn't detect the file name and the file had no content. Now after looking through the HTTP 1.1 RFC documentation, I've noticed that they state that the "Content- Disposition" directive is not part of the HTTP standard (Section 15.5 of RFC2616).
I thought that this issue was possibly due to the fact that no attachment file name was being specified, but then I came across another section in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol specification (RFC2616) that states the following: "RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 document protocol elements used by some existing HTTP implementations, but not consistently and correctly across most HTTP/1.1 applications. Implementors are advised to be aware of these features, but cannot rely upon their presence in, or interoperability with, other HTTP/1.1 applications. Some of these describe proposed experimental features, and some describe features that experimental deployment found lacking that are now addressed in the base HTTP/1.1 specification." (Section 19.5 RFC 2616) As the grammar for that directive shows (Section 19.5.1), there can be 0 or more disposition parameters after the "Content-Disposition: attachment" directive. So basically, to remedy this issue, i've had the "Content-Disposition: attachment" directive removed from the web server, but what I'd really like to know is if this could possibly be a bug with the Android web browser or if it's something the developers purposely did because that directive is not officially part of the HTTP standard? If anyone could give me an answer on that, it would be greatly appreciated! Also, if I am getting any facts mixed up or if there is something else i'm unaware of, please let me know. Thanks Al --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
