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Application octet stream filename3/10/2024 ![]() RFC 2616 also mentions the possibility of extension tokens, and these days most browsers recognise inline to mean you do want the entity displayed if possible (that is, if it's a type the browser knows how to display, otherwise it's got no choice in the matter). It used to be the case that some browsers would ignore it in the case of text/html but I think this was some long time ago at this point (and I'm going to bed soon so I'm not going to start testing a whole bunch of browsers right now maybe later). You can combine the use of Content-Disposition with other content-types, such as image/png or even text/html to indicate you want saving rather than display. Or to look at it from another direction the only thing one can safely do with application/octet-stream is to save it to file and hope someone else knows what it's for. ![]() application/octet-stream is defined as "arbitrary binary data" in RFC 2046, and there's a definite overlap here of it being appropriate for entities whose sole intended purpose is to be saved to disk, and from that point on be outside of anything "webby". ![]() The content-type should be whatever it is known to be, if you know it.
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