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Why does “data_set_name.csv” appear twice in the query string?

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Why does “data_set_name.csv” appear twice in the query string?

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These two lines generate parts of the CGI query string that is passed to the SPRDSHT.SCL program by the Broker. The&url reference resolves to http://server_name/broker, and the &member reference resolves to the data set name. These lines are necessary to give the file the proper name and extension as it is downloaded. Because different browsers interpret the CGI query string differently, both lines must be present if your users have different browsers. Netscape Navigator uses the filename after the slash-delimited (/) portion of the URL to determine the filename and extension. Microsoft Internet Explorer uses the last value in the CGI query string. The _saveas variable name is a dummy variable; it is not referenced or processed by the Broker or any of the Dispatcher Applications in these examples. It is there because a value in a CGI query string must have a corresponding name; and because we want the filename and extension to appear at the end of the CGI query string, we have to assig

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