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Chrome does the same, when you right-clic on a file and select "Save as…", the download begin in a temporary file, and then when you select the emplacement wher

• icebraining 15y ago
  Firefox does that too.
  • hendi_ 15y ago
    Even IE6 did it.
  • zobzu 15y ago
    Firefox.. since nightly 15 i think also does stuff like, when you go to the search box, it open the connection to the http server before sending the search request i believe chrome does it too
• masklinn 15y ago
  I don't know a browser which does not do that. They need to start the download to get the metadata (file name and type), and they'll do it if only because shitty servers may react very badly to the browser just stopping with a full socket buffer.
  • skeletonjelly 15y ago
    They don't need to start it to get the metadata. All that's sent is the content-disposition header with the suggested file name.
    • masklinn 15y ago
      > They don't need to start it to get the metadata. All that's sent is the content-disposition header with the suggested file name. That is the start, unless you perform a HEAD followed by a GET (which takes 2 round-trips instead of one and may not even be correctly supported). And because any link can lead to that, every single link you click would have to be implemented via 2 round-trips, that's complete madness. > All that's sent is the content-disposition header with the suggested file name. Nonsense, there is no situation in which "all that's sent is the content-disposition header", that header is part of a full header section and immediately precedes the content itself.
      • skeletonjelly 15y ago
        Right you are. This is why I shouldn't comment before coffee.