image download dialog

[thompom]

Hi - am using the following to popup a 'save as' dialog

    Response.ContentType = "image/GIF" ' arbitrary 
    fn = x_url '"whatever.jpg" 
    FPath = "c:\" & fn 
    Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=" & fn 
 
    Set adoStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") 
    adoStream.Open() 
    adoStream.Type = 1 
    adoStream.LoadFromFile(FPath) 
    Response.BinaryWrite adoStream.Read() 
    adoStream.Close 
    Set adoStream = Nothing 
 
    Response.End

the save as dialog popsup, and i click save but then get an error

Internet explorer cannot download myfile.gif from localhost.
Internet explorer was not able to open this internet site.

any ideas welcome - have read this could be a buffer problem ?

 

[shaddow]

You should try with some static file like in this example

    fn = "loading.gif"
    FPath = "C:\temp\" & fn 
    Response.ContentType = "image/GIF" ' arbitrary 
    Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=" & fn 
 
    Set adoStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") 
    adoStream.Open
    adoStream.Type = 1 
    adoStream.LoadFromFile(FPath) 
    Response.BinaryWrite adoStream.Read
    adoStream.Close 
    Set adoStream = Nothing

This works on my machine. Maybe your file name isnt right.
Can you show an example of how the fn name would look like?


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[thompom]

hi - thx for your reply my fn was a full URL and this was the problem