[OH-Dev] [issue667] Safari appends ".txt" to tutorial's python script's name

[alx]

New submission from alx <alx-openhatch at unsealed.net>:

On:
 http://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop_5/Friday/Tutorial#Pyth
on_scripts

when a Mac OS 10.7 Safari user clicks on
 http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop5/nobel.py

The file is opened in the browser. When right-clicked and "Saved As...", 
the file is renamed from "nobel.py" to "nobel.py.txt".

Later in step 4 ( CLI: "python nobel.py" ), the filename doesn't match, 
and a student was observed to be visibly confused.

I think this might be a server side issue over at the mit.edu server 
where the script is stored, which is running Apache. So, this might be 
fixable with a custom .htaccess file in
 http://mit.edu/jesstess/www/BostonPythonWorkshop5/

I think this has to do with "Content-Disposition".

Another solution might be to move the file to openhatch.org (for example 
to "/var/www/BostonPythonWorkshop5/pyfiles/"), where you have the 
liberty of configuring nginx.conf with per-directory custom Content-
Disposition header:

location /files/BostonPythonWorkshop5/ {
        root /var/www/BostonPythonWorkshop5/pyfiles/;
        add_header Content-Disposition 'attachment;
    }

Or something like that. Hope this helps!

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messages: 2936
nosy: alx, paulproteus
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Safari appends ".txt" to tutorial's python script's name

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