[Sparrow]

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

Originally Posted by curl header output

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

Originally Posted by curl header ouput

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%20p rice%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]

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]

Sparrow,

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

[Sparrow]

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]

Sparrow,

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

[Sparrow]

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%20p rice%20pane.png"
Content-transfer-encoding: binary
Content-Length: 26455
Content-Type: unknown/unknown

[Soultrader]

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

[Sparrow]

Perfect, it's working, thank you James