Regarding sending files to clients I have not worked with .tiff files personally, but I guess you would have to tell the client how the data is encoded.

Perhaps something in the line of

undef $/; # Slurp whole file into scalar,
          # otherwise only to first \n
my $file = "ms.tif";
open(READ, $file) || die "Yada yada";
binmode(READ);
my $buffer = <READ>;
close(READ);

binmode(STDOUT);
print "Content-Type: image/tiff\n";
print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n"  # Was base64
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=ms.tif\n";
print "Content-Length: ", -s $file, "\n\n"  #Show progress bar
print $buffer;

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This is untested code and I may be barking up the wrong alley tree.

I see that you binmode(READ) but what about STDOUT ??

Update: Stubborn me, codeexample is now updated and tested on IE6.0

The only annoying issue left is that the you get the Open/Save dialog twice.

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In reply to Re: Downloading images to client PCs by guha
in thread Downloading images to client PCs by MrCromeDome

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