Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 30.11.2020 um 19:39 schrieb Keith Moore:
> 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.

...but then it will usually (absent content-disposition) default to the
last path segmemt, which would be the right thing for the URLs we're
currently discussing.

Best regards, Julian