Re: Image download problem
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texte = Hi John,I'm running IIS under NT4 with all the service packs and patchs. WebCat 4.It's not a WebCat problem. It happens on static pages,too. The problem toggles on and off with content expiration; if I enable content expiration, the PC version of Internet Explorer will only save downloaded images as bitmaps. If I switch content expiration off, the files are saved correctly as GIF or JPEG.IE might have a problem when the contents of the header change.Pat> Pat McCormick wrote: >> >> I have asked this question before, but haven't gotten any response. > > Maybe because you didn't give useful information. > >> >> I'm serving a site with Microsoft IIS. The site includes links to download >> GIF and JPEG images. Clicking these links opens the save dialog, but only >> allows the image to be saved as BMP. > > Which browser? Version? Version of IIS? You have not told us nearly > enough to help you. It would also be very helpful if you would give a > link to demonstrate the problem. > >> >> Microsoft has a know problem with this, but only when the URL contains >> user/password information in this format: >> >> someone:somepassword@www.thesite.com/theimage.jepg >> >> Pages processed by WebCatalog that have a link for image downloading exhibit >> this problem all the time even without user password information in the >> URL >> >> Does WebCatalog make use of user/password information in URLs as part of its >> process? Is there any way to get image download links to operate correctly >> on WebCatalog handled pages? > > No, what you see is what you get. However, if the user has logged into > the site before this page, the browser will continue to send the > user/password pair until you move to another site. And even then, > some browsers will cache the login until you actually exit the browser. > > The real issue is that when the file is being sent, it does not have > the correct MIME file type set. I suspect this is still IIS's fault, > since the webserver is responsible for sending the MIME types. > However, if you are trying to send the files as binary directly from > WebCatalog, you will need to set the MIME type yourself. But you have > not told us enough to know that is what you are doing. > > HTH > > John ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Hi John,I'm running IIS under NT4 with all the service packs and patchs. WebCat 4.It's not a WebCat problem. It happens on static pages,too. The problem toggles on and off with content expiration; if I enable content expiration, the PC version of Internet Explorer will only save downloaded images as bitmaps. If I switch content expiration off, the files are saved correctly as GIF or JPEG.IE might have a problem when the contents of the header change.Pat> Pat McCormick wrote: >> >> I have asked this question before, but haven't gotten any response. > > Maybe because you didn't give useful information. > >> >> I'm serving a site with Microsoft IIS. The site includes links to download >> GIF and JPEG images. Clicking these links opens the save dialog, but only >> allows the image to be saved as BMP. > > Which browser? Version? Version of IIS? You have not told us nearly > enough to help you. It would also be very helpful if you would give a > link to demonstrate the problem. > >> >> Microsoft has a know problem with this, but only when the URL contains >> user/password information in this format: >> >> someone:somepassword@www.thesite.com/theimage.jepg >> >> Pages processed by WebCatalog that have a link for image downloading exhibit >> this problem all the time even without user password information in the >> URL >> >> Does WebCatalog make use of user/password information in URLs as part of its >> process? Is there any way to get image download links to operate correctly >> on WebCatalog handled pages? > > No, what you see is what you get. However, if the user has logged into > the site before this page, the browser will continue to send the > user/password pair until you move to another site. And even then, > some browsers will cache the login until you actually exit the browser. > > The real issue is that when the file is being sent, it does not have > the correct MIME file type set. I suspect this is still IIS's fault, > since the webserver is responsible for sending the MIME types. > However, if you are trying to send the files as binary directly from > WebCatalog, you will need to set the MIME type yourself. But you have > not told us enough to know that is what you are doing. > > HTH > > John ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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