Good afternoon,

I am trying to deliver an image to a client PC for whatever they may wish to do with it. After completing my purchasing process, I want to send the image to them to save or print. I have tried several methods of doing so (thank you, Super Search!) but can't seem to get either of them to work for me.

I have tried the following methods of doing this: 

my $file = "\\\\cromedome\\images\\182.TIF";

print $request->header(-type=>'image/tif',
                       -attachment=>$file);

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and 
my $file = "\\\\cromedome\\images\\182.TIF";
my $buffer;

open TIF, $file or die "Cant open image";
read TIF, $buffer, -s(TIF);
print $request->header(-type=>"image/tif"), $buffer;

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When the CGI executes, I get a dialog to "Open" or "Save As". Open lets me select my image viewer, but whatever data is being delivered to it is not my image.

One other trick: I'd like the file delivered in such a way (perhaps with a .TIF extension?) so Windows will know to pop open the default image viewer when I select open.

FWIW, clients will be using IE 5.5 and above, and likely Windows 2k. That's what I've been testing this with. Any insight is appreciated :)

Thanks!
MrCromeDome

In reply to Delivering an image to a client browser/PC by MrCromeDome

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