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A while ago I started using HEAD requests via Ajax in some apps and thought I'd write a few notes about why. Basically it's to improve user interfaces/experience when things start getting complicated.
This is likely old news for many people, but I hadn't come across the HTTP Content-Disposition response header until recently, so here's my notes about it. The idea is to get the browser to ask the user to save a dynamically generated document they've downloaded, with a useful default filename for the downloaded file.