Have a look at what we recently did with the non standard, but common and useful, httponly cookie parameter. Jerome introduced a function with a descriptive name that was not tied to the specific non standard semantics, and could be implemented differently in the future if there is a standardized or better consensus way to do the same thing.
I agree content-disposition is currently ubiquitous for downloading files to browsers. -----Original Message----- From: "Kevin Conaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: 11/21/07 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Using FileRepresentation Hi Thierry, Thanks very much for your example. I am not serving static content so unfortunately the Directory resource will not be of much use for me. I find it odd that the Content-disposition header is not set. While it is not officially part of the HTTP standard, it is a header that the entire web uses when serving files. I think that Restlet is doing a disservice to its users by forcing such an awkward workaround for such a common use case. With your approval, I'm happy to work on a patch that would set this header when using FileRepresentation. Otherwise, I'm curious to hear your reasons for not including it. Thanks! Kevin On Nov 21, 2007 5:28 PM, Thierry Boileau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > if you plan to serve static files, may Directory be what you need, see > part06 of the tutorial > http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/tutorial#part06. > > Otherwise, you can use the "content-disposition" header (which is not > a standard header, see chapters 15.5 and 19.5 of the HTTP rfc > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt). I send you a sample application > (2 classes). > > best regards, > Thierry Boileau > > On Nov 21, 2007 8:46 PM, Kevin Conaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the proper way to use FileRepresentation inside > > Resource.getRepresentation(Variant)? I'd like to send the user a file > if > > they browse to a certain URI. > > > > However, when I browse to that URI, it sends me the file, but the > original > > it doesn't send a filename with it. > > > > Also, why must I set an time to live on the representation? If I'm > sending > > the file to be downloaded, it should live as long as necessary. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kevin > > >
