Prepared SaveAs-filenames

Users regularily want to keep WikiPages for later re-reading (dialup users especially). Suddenly this is somewhat complicated by unclean installations, because browsers often show up the last snippet of any URL before the QueryString as default for the filename in the SavePageAs box.

A typical example how not to do it was (use your Browsers SaveAs-feature):

• Wiki:WelcomeVisitors Better by accident:
• WikiEngine Better default via HTTP-tweaks:
• ErfurtWiki:

Possibilities

The default in the SaveAs-box can be enhanced by either having a better server

mod_rewrite, static Wiki duplicates

Some Wikis are already set up to provide their pages with URLs that end in .htm or .html, by either using mod rewrite or having the pages as static versions on the Web server.

HTTP header or HTML HTTP-EQUIV header

With an HTTP header of “Content-Disposition: inline; filename=WikiPage.html” the browser presents that much more useful default to users. IT could be further enriched by prepending the current Wikis InterWiki name in front of the page name.

Implementations

Problems

That’s surely a site owner vs site user issue, but typically appreciate even such small enhancements.

Contributors

MarioSalzer

CategoryFeature