MediaWiki does not permit this because allowing random people to create
pages and have them returned to a user with a text/html or other
mimetype creates XSS vectors and ways of distributing malware.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

On 11-08-10 08:30 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen wrote:
> Is it possible let MediaWiki hint the browser about the filename and
> change the content type?
>
> I have a wikipage, e.g., "Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory". If I save
> this page from the browser "Buss-Durkee_Hostility_Inventory.html" is
> suggested as the filename, - which is fine. 
>
> I have another wikipage called "Bipolar Disorder Neuroimaging Database -
> Amygdala.csv". When I download this page (from a template-constructed
> link) with "/w/index.php?action=raw&title=" I get the filename suggested
> as "index.php". I would like to have the filename as "Bipolar Disorder
> Neuroimaging Database - Amygdala.csv" and also manipulate the content
> type, e.g., to "Content-type: text/csv; charset=utf-8". 
>
> Is that possible? 
>
> My only idea would be to write a cgi-script that fetches the wikipage
> with csv information and forwards it to the user while controlling the
> content-type.
>  
>
> /Finn


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