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ContentDisposition

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing ContentDisposition handling and the CacheControl work referenced in issue #3. Determine which string fields need builder support, how validity should be checked at build(), and how parsing can avoid unnecessary copies. Done means an agreed design with clear field, validation, and efficiency requirements.

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Description

rfc

The Content-Disposition header is a more complicated one, and coming up with an appropriate design that is easy and clear to use while also being efficient is important.

Where as most of the fields that can be set in CacheControl (#3) are known, and can be represented in bitflags, the fields of a ContentDisposition are typically strings. It'd be useful to be able to set these fields easily (not having to worry too much about converting to a valid HeaderValue), without needing to make several copies when parsing.

One option is to add a ContentDisposition::builder(), which can set the various fields, and the validity can be checked when build() is called.

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Rust
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