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

[Will Smith]

Will Smith <wsmith85 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Confirmed that if trying to download in Safari, after navigating to page (clicking the link in question 
first), right clicking on the page and choosing "Save Page As..." Multiple options need to be changed 
to download the file properly.

The default is to download as a web archive. Then even if you change that to page source, you get 
prompted again to append ".txt" to the file name. You must choose "Don't Append" to get the 
desired result.

I updated the instructions on the wiki instructing the user to right click the link directly and choose 
a "Save As" option. I used the text from 4 different current browsers in the instructions (Safari on 
Mavericks, Firefox on Mavericks, Chrome on Mavericks, and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8).

The alternatives would be to host the file on a server where we could control the server's response 
headers and set the content disposition header. Reference here: 
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html and here: 
http://www.symkat.com/force-download-with-http-headers

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assignedto:  -> individuwill
nosy: +individuwill
status: chatting -> need-review

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