Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

[Sam Felsenfeld]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me ...
I have a link on a page that allows people to automatically download a jpeg.
The link basically goes to "download.jpg?p ic=filename"

Here's what I have in my download.php file:

$pic=$_GET['pic'];
$file="lg/"."$pic";
$name="$pic";
$fp=fopen($file , "r");
header("content-disposition: filename=\"$nam e\"");
header("content-type: attachment; name=\"$name\"" );
fpassthru($fp);
exit;

It works fine on everything I've tried on a PC, plus it works fine on Safari
and Netscape on a Mac, but it doesn't work on IE on a Mac, either on 9.x or
OS X. Anybody know why?

Thanks,
Sam

[John Dunlop]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

Sam Felsenfeld wrote:
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> header("content-type: attachment; name=\"$name\"" );[/color]

What made you mess with the Content-Type?

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[Sam Felsenfeld]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

I don't do much with PHP outside of databases, so this is new to me. I
looked through everything I have, then looked all over the web for answers,
and this was the closest thing I could find to work as a solution.

I'm guessing this is something that's pretty simple for most everybody else
.... Is that where I'm going wrong?

On 5/29/04 2:43 AM, in article
MPG.1b226bb4852 233c7989726@New s.Individual.NE T, "John Dunlop"
<usenet+2004@jo hn.dunlop.name> wrote:
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> Sam Felsenfeld wrote:
>[color=green]
>> header("content-type: attachment; name=\"$name\"" );[/color]
>
> What made you mess with the Content-Type?[/color]

[John Dunlop]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

Sam Felsenfeld wrote upside-down:
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> > Sam Felsenfeld wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > header("content-type: attachment; name=\"$name\"" );[/color][/color][/color]

[ ... ]
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> ... Is that where I'm going wrong?[/color]

The Content-Type header? Yes. For a JPEG, the registered media type
is image/jpeg, which the Content-Type header should reflect. Your
Content-Type header isn't just meaningless, but syntactically
malformed (RFC2616, secs. 14.17 and 3.7).

Just link to the image. Most web servers will take care of sending
appropriate headers for you.

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Jock

[Sam Felsenfeld]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

Sorry to go back and forth so much on this, but I do appreciate your
willingness to help ...

I think you're misunderstandin g what I need to accomplish ... I need the
user to click on a link, and when they click on that link, I need it to
automatically begin a download of a jpeg to their computer. I screwed up
when I originally posted and those two header lines are flip-flopped, but
aside from that, that script is working in everything other than IE on a
Mac. Is there a simple way/function to automatically force a download of a
jpeg? Just linking to the image is going to open it in the browser.

Thanks,
Sam

On 5/29/04 8:44 AM, in article
MPG.1b22c02dcba 80b3398972a@New s.Individual.NE T, "John Dunlop"
<usenet+2004@jo hn.dunlop.name> wrote:
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> Sam Felsenfeld wrote upside-down:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Sam Felsenfeld wrote:
>>>
>>>> header("content-type: attachment; name=\"$name\"" );[/color][/color]
>
> [ ... ]
>[color=green]
>> ... Is that where I'm going wrong?[/color]
>
> The Content-Type header? Yes. For a JPEG, the registered media type
> is image/jpeg, which the Content-Type header should reflect. Your
> Content-Type header isn't just meaningless, but syntactically
> malformed (RFC2616, secs. 14.17 and 3.7).
>
> Just link to the image. Most web servers will take care of sending
> appropriate headers for you.[/color]

[Joel Farris]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

Sam Felsenfeld wrote:
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> I think you're misunderstandin g what I need to accomplish ... I need the user
> to click on a link, and when they click on that link, I need it to
> automatically begin a download of a jpeg to their computer.[snip]that script
> is working in everything other than IE on a Mac. Is there a simple
> way/function to automatically force a download of a jpeg? Just linking to the
> image is going to open it in the browser.
>
> Thanks, Sam[/color]


If it works in every other browser you've tried, including Safari, I'd start
looking at what's messed up in IE's 'file helpers' preferences.
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[John Dunlop]

Re: Help with getting a jpeg to download on Mac IE

Sam Felsenfeld wrote upside-down:
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> Is there a simple way/function to automatically force a download of a
> jpeg?[/color]

Nope. Sorry to disappoint, but there's no complicated way either.
That's not how the web works.
[color=blue]
> Just linking to the image is going to open it in the browser.[/color]

If you truly believe that, I'd urge you to read some WWW authoring
group.

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Jock