On 26 Feb 2003, Bryce C wrote:
> The file itself is not on the web. download.php takes a parameter that
> says which file to "pipe" through off the system to the user. I.E. the
> file's at /root/file.tar.gz There's no way the user can get there w/o
> asking download.php which does have access.
Some browsers may honor Content-Disposition.
You can read about it in rfc2616, rfc1806, rfc2183
Example:
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext"
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/
(text/plain)