There is 1 thing about the Perlmonks site, which I think needs improving. I often save the nodes which interest me, or are too deep for me to grasp in short online sessions. So I save them to go over later. When I do this, and I get the "Save As" dialog in my browser, it is always "index.pl.html". I then have to rename it to the subject of the node.

Would it be possible to put the node subject as the name of the html file?

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Re: saving pages all= index.pl.html
by valdez (Monsignor) on Feb 15, 2003 at 14:58 UTC

    In addition to your suggestion, I would like to see a print link that shows also replies (now you have to click a second time on replies). And we would be able to save nicely formatted pages, with proper titles and without annoying nodelets. A really nice idea, zentara++.
    I'm not a pmdev, but I would like to help if needed.

    Ciao, Valerio

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Re: saving pages all= index.pl.html
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Feb 15, 2003 at 15:55 UTC
    What browser?

    IE prompts me to save the page with the contents of the <TITLE> tags (basically). Phoenix/Mozilla prompt me with index.pl.html (dumb), as does opera.

    Would it be possible to put the node subject as the name of the html file?
    I don't exactly see how anybody can do anything about this, it completely depends upon the browser.

    MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
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        Oh I get it now. So zentara wants another link next to print, xml, save, which would use Content-Disposition ... so a user can "save target as" and save it with the neato filename. We can do that.

        update: Or we can send the Content-Disposition header with every request. I haven't checked the RFC, but IE does not respect the filename specified via Content-Disposition, while Mozilla does. I'm not sure how it's supposed to work.

        MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
        I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
        ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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      Konqueror saves it as 'index.pl', Galeon saves this node as 'index.pl?node_id=237143'...

      Try filing a wishlist bug on Mozilla that addresses your disleasure.

      When crypto tools are outlawed, I will still be using them.

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