.PNG's insist on downloading in Firefox #2

[Sparrow 10]

Hiya all,

 

First off I really love this forum, thanks to SoulTrader and all the other contributors.

 

Since the previous thread has been closed I couldn't post there. As far as I know IE guesses/computes which kind of attachement it is dealing with if the mime type is not set. FF doesn't do that.

 

To fix this the mime type needs to be set by the server, otherwise only client side workarounds can be used.

 

Here's a demonstration what the header reply looks like for 2 different attachements:

 

JPG

 

Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:48:52 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.7 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7

Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, private

Vary: User-Agent

Expires: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:48:52 GMT

Last-Modified: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:41:16 GMT

ETag: "4246"

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Content-disposition: inline; filename="1.jpg"

Content-transfer-encoding: binary

Content-Length: 138778

Content-Type: image/jpeg

 

PNG

 

Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:48:10 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.7 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7

Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, private

Vary: User-Agent

Expires: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:48:10 GMT

Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:06 GMT

ETag: "3529"

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Content-disposition: inline; filename="5%20min%20price%20pane.png"

Content-transfer-encoding: binary

Content-Length: 26455

Content-Type: unknown/unknown

 

Unfortunately I don't know anything about VB so I can't say if this can be fixed and how much work it would be.

 

Cheers

[Sparrow 10]

Setting the mime type to image/png should resolve it.

Here's a link to the docs, I hope I found the right one.

 

Cheers

[Soultrader 12]

Sparrow,

 

What sort of fix do I need to implement? Is the sizing the problem with png formats?

[Sparrow 10]

Soultrader,

 

Everything is fine with the files itself, the only problem is that clicking on the download link open's the save dialog.

This could be avoided if the mime type was set, changing the other settings is not necessary.

 

Cheers

[Soultrader 12]

Sparrow,

 

Can you try to see if anything has changed? I added a line of coding to the mime type.

[Sparrow 10]

James,

 

Unfortunately, I still get the same reply in the header, thanks for your effort though.

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:58:36 GMT

Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.7 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7

Cache-Control: max-age=31536000, private

Vary: User-Agent

Expires: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:58:36 GMT

Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:56:06 GMT

ETag: "3529"

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Content-disposition: inline; filename="5%20min%20price%20pane.png"

Content-transfer-encoding: binary

Content-Length: 26455

Content-Type: unknown/unknown

[Soultrader 12]

I made a small change to it. I think this should do the trick.

[Sparrow 10]

Perfect, it's working, thank you James