On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/23/10 1:12 PM, Jose Fandos 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. > > Currently yes, but that seems like a UI issue, not a spec issue. Nothing > _requires_ that behavior of UAs. > > I'd prefer just having a header in multipart responses to flag that all the > files should probably be saved to the same location, or fixing UAs to only > prompt once, to inventing yet another package format here.
Indeed, if this can be fixed with no changes to specs that would be ideal. For a multipart response it seems like the UA is free to prompt in any way it sees fit. However one problem with a multipart response is that the UA doesn't know the number of files, or their types and sizes, until all files have been downloaded, right? If there was a way to indicate this information up front then I think we're good to go. / Jonas
