Re: Image download problem

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2001

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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 problemtoggles on and off with content expiration; if I enable content expiration,the PC version of Internet Explorer will only save downloaded images asbitmaps. If I switch content expiration off, the files are saved correctlyas 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Image download problem (John Peacock 2001)
Re: Image download problem (Pat McCormick 2001)
Re: Image download problem (John Peacock 2001)
Image download problem (Pat McCormick 2001)

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 problemtoggles on and off with content expiration; if I enable content expiration,the PC version of Internet Explorer will only save downloaded images asbitmaps. If I switch content expiration off, the files are saved correctlyas 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/ Pat McCormick

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