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Topic: force image to download

Posted By: RCorr
Subject: force image to download
Date Posted: 05 July 2007 at 9:47pm

Hi,

I am creating an intranet page for my company where they can download images of the company logo and partners� logos. Is there a way to force a save dialog box to open up instead of the image opening up in a browser. My page is in html format so no server-side scripting is use.

When I search the web all I get are examples in PHP and get the following:

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");

I experiment this in a META tag:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/force-download">

but it didn't help. Does anyone know of a solution?

Thanks in advance,

RCorr

Replies:

Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 1:00pm

Not off the top of my head, but you could ZIP them up, which will force it to download rather than just open.

Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 6:05pm

you could rename it with an un-recognized extension and inform the users to rename it after downloading...

Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 1:26pm

Just found this (not tested though);

http://www.irt.org/script/764.htm - http://www.irt.org/script/764.htm

Posted By: RCorr
Date Posted: 19 July 2007 at 9:25pm

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I prefer not to change the extension. I visited the page that MortiOli suggested and read that the script only puts the image into cache and instead of prompting a dialog box as it mentioned on the web site.

I read the page comments and found that I need to implement the mime header application/octet-stream to be able to force the image to download. How do I go about adding this to my web page?

Thanks in advance,

RCorr