There is no original name.

print "this is perl.\n";
[download]

That's a snippet that even I have no name for, so the engine does not know what to name it. But it is downloadable. The fact that it's called "index.pl" is because that's the file that was called (perlmonks.org/index.pl)

Note: Some browsers (Mozilla) will display the code and not present you with a Save dialog box.

What Mozilla will do with a received document depends on its document type. Which is text/plain for the "downloaded code". Displaying it seems like a very sensible thing to do. But I guess there are browsers written by people who find plain text something alien (what? *anyone* can read this!) and present the user with a save dialog box.

Abigail

This is nearly the same issue that was discussed at saving pages all= index.pl.html.

Ciao, Valerio

Someone could feel free to implement a <code filename="callMeThis.plx"> feature.