Re: Replacing ? and & with / in URLS

> Why would one do this? Content-Disposition prevents the need for fake > filenames. I guess the only thing I know of would be to make search engines > happy. Any other reason? Just curious. Because browsers don't follow spec. IE ignores Content-Disposition. Or maybe it's Netscape. And only certain versions... Either way, that problem of fake filenames and Content-Disposition is separate from not wanting to use ? and &. Even if you just have http://yourserver.php which returns a GIF or whatever, and the user tries to right-click or otherwise download it, they'll get messed up if you rely solely on Content-Disposition. The reason to use / instead of using ? and & is two-fold. One, to get search engines to index it, and two to make the URLs slightly more user-friendly to humans to type. It *still* won't fix the broken browsers that ignore Content-Disposition unless you tack on a something.gif for a GIF etc.