Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 11/30/20 12:33 PM, tom petch wrote:

> But I don't have the option.  From my browser (IE) I only have 'Save 
> as ...' and the 'Save' option is greyed out and this is the behaviour 
> I am used to when accessing RFC-Editor, data tracker, IETF etc and I 
> think that that is the case for most if not all web sites.  My 
> alternative is to select all, copy and paste into a word processor or 
> editor but it is not an approach I would commend. 

When downloading a file via FTP, the client knows what the file name is 
on the server, and it's often reasonable to save the file on the client 
machine with the same name.

When downloading a file via HTTP, the URL might be anything at all, and 
there's no reason an HTTP client should assume you want to use that 
filename on your client.   So in practice an HTTP client should 
generally expect you to specify the destination filename as default 
behavior.

Keith