[dev] PATH_TRANSLATED or Why view.php/"attachment_info" and not view.php?"attachment_info"

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting "C. R. Oldham" <cro@nca.asu.edu>:

> Can someone enlighten me as to why the developers used the '/' separator
> instead of the '?' separator?

Because Internet Explorer ignores the filename: attribute of Content-
Disposition headers, making it impossible to control the suggested filename of 
downloaded files without making the url "script.php/desired_filename".

-chuck

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