Prompt "SaveAs" Dialog on Image click like for applications, .zip etc

[Coldfire]

Hello,

The issue is: I have a webpage that displays image in img tag while taking its src from a remote url ( dynamically). Now, my client want this functionality to ask for "Save at any location" routine when someone clicks on the image so that user can avoid right-click saveas.

Platform: xp/asp.net2.0/web-application

PLz help asap

[Plater]

Well if you have an onclick handler for the image (which is tricky because the aspx page validator will always give you a warning saying "this tag does not support that feature" or something)

if you want the picture to prompt for download you will probably have to do some middleman work. Your code will have to make a request for the picture on the remote server THEN send it back to your client (in response to their click) with an extra header that declares it to be downloaded.

Something like:

string DefaultFileName="Whatever.jpg";//or whatever
string myContentType="image/jpg"; //or whatever
Response.Clear();
Response.Cache.SetRevalidation(HttpCacheRevalidation.AllCaches);
Response.ContentType = myContentType;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + DefaultFileName);
Response.Write(cbuff, 0, cbuff.Length);
//where cbuff is a char[] containing your image data
Response.End();
 

[Coldfire]

thanks that helped...but I am still struggling!

Well if you have an onclick handler for the image (which is tricky because the aspx page validator will always give you a warning saying "this tag does not support that feature" or something)

if you want the picture to prompt for download you will probably have to do some middleman work. Your code will have to make a request for the picture on the remote server THEN send it back to your client (in response to their click) with an extra header that declares it to be downloaded.

Something like:

string DefaultFileName="Whatever.jpg";//or whatever
string myContentType="image/jpg"; //or whatever
Response.Clear();
Response.Cache.SetRevalidation(HttpCacheRevalidation.AllCaches);
Response.ContentType = myContentType;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + DefaultFileName);
Response.Write(cbuff, 0, cbuff.Length);
//where cbuff is a char[] containing your image data
Response.End();
 

[Plater]

Well break it down into steps, first you need to get the image clickable AND have the click be caught by your server code.

I would suggest making a new aspx page called like ImageDownloader.aspx
And make that page have its sole job is to perform those sneaky manuvers.

So for an image like this:
[html]
<img id="myimage" src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif">[/html]
You could have an onclick method that goes to:

http://mywebsite/ImageDownloader.aspx?url=http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif
 

Then inside your ImageDownloader.aspx file, parse out the URL

if (Request.Params["url"]!=null)
{
   // validate the string, attempt to fetch the data, then send it back with the code i posted earlier
}
else
{
   // respond back with an error of somesort
}