Safari adds .html extension to common downloads

Hi,

It's not part of the webpage that determines the content type of the download. That's a separate configuration setting on the server side.

The code you posted is for the webpage the links are present on.

When the link is clicked on the server, the server sends the headers I mentioned in my previous post to the browser indicating the type of content to expect. The 'content-disposition:' part also means that the browser shouldn't try and display the data in the browser but allow the user to save it.

Technically, Safari is doing what it is told correctly. Unfortunately, there are quite a few mis-configured web servers out there.

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For the first file on that page (AHCI_RAID.zip) I see the type being returned as:

Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=AHCI_RAID.zip
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

So for that case it looks like the server is the problem.

Hi,

That's usually caused by the web server the files are hosted on misidentifying the MIME type of the file (probably as text/html). Can you post an example link to a file you have this problem with?

Other web browsers seem to have enough 'smarts' to ignore the MIME type for certain types of files, whereas Safari will just follow what the web server is incorrectly telling it.