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Avoid including the "" character in the quoted-string form of the filename parameter, as escaping is not implemented by some user agents, and "" can be considered an illegal path character.

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Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 9 years ago. Active 1 year ago. Viewed 59k times. May i know how to assign a file-name to a a-href file download. Will setting headers on HTTP response would work? I just started using the Outlook Web Client as my company is migrating away from local email and a local copy of MS Outlook toward keeping all email permanently in their corporate cloud to be access from any device computer browser, mobile phone email client, etc.

Was pulling my hair out and finally googled the problem and found this thread. Its mind boggling that Apple would consider this to be proper behavior and not flag and fix it as a bug for years. From my perspective, ANY modification of a file during transmission via any medium is file corruption. A file moved from one place to another should retain exactly identical contents, size, name, dates, and all the various hidden attributes. It seems like people think its okay to just retain the contents but alter other aspects of the file.

This really screws up systems to track modifications, backup, detect lost or corrupted files, etc. Please don't do it! When a system takes on the challenge of transporting or storing our precious files, it needs to accept the responsibility to preserve all aspects of the files without modification. Jun 28, AM. Page content loaded. Jan 9, AM in response to franz walter In response to franz walter. When the download window is opened you have the option of editing the name of the file before you save it.

Jan 9, AM. Think about web based email with attachments. I never saw anybody in the last 15 years making the attachment's file name "web compatible" before attaching the file and hitting the send button. And every person with normal expectations to browser behaviour would expect to find the download file having the exactly same name as is displayed in the browser window.

This is what almost all Browsers except safari do. Asked 5 years, 7 months ago. Active 5 years, 7 months ago. Viewed times. Thanks in advance. LazyNinja LazyNinja 21 6 6 bronze badges. You may not be doing URL decoding. Thanks a lot for your response.

It worked using Alfie's code. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I think Suresh Koya was about right, except you need to encode it instead. Alfie Alfie 2, 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. You're welcome. It is worth listening to Ed's answer too, as I see you are trying. Feb 6, PM.

Sep 2, PM. Sep 2, PM in response to greathouse. The best way to get around it is if people that put files up don't use spaces in the names. I didn't say every browser, I said apple. PC's do NOT do this, you can download any file you like and it keeps the names with the spaces This was a bug that was fixed with the advent of Windows The "real issue" is that Apple apparently has a bunch of DOS throw-backs that, for some unknown reason, think file names should not involve spaces.

Do PC users need to save files without spaces? Well, if you're downloading those files with a PC, then the answer is no.

To say the solution is for the entire world to start saving files with underscores or hyphens, is ridiculous. That's like saying "Doctor, it hurts when I lift my arm", and him replying with, "The solution is to stop raising your arm".

Sound silly? Yes, of course it is. The solution is for Apple to simply fix it. It's a bug, a bug that Windows apparently figured out, it's time Apple did too.

Actually, no. I see it on windows comptuers. However your focus seems to be more about expressing yourself on a public forum than anything else. This is just a user to user forum.