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
