I have set up my FTP space, and anonymous guests are able to download
images via FTP with their browser. The think I really need/want them
to be able to do is click a "Download Photo" button, and have the
prompt come up asking where the want to save the file, rather than
having that file come up in the browser window. I have tried varying
my coding, such as:
ftp://ftp.mysite.com/photo.jpg
ftp://mysite.com/photo.jpg
ftp://www.mysite.com/photo.jpg
http://ftp.mysite.com/photo.jpg

and none of them make a difference. What is the coding to make this
happen? Thanks in advance!

John

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Request for Question Clarification by alexander-ga on 22 Mar 2003 01:28 PST

What you ask cannot be done when images are retrieved via FTP. FTP
provides no Content-Type information, and how the browser handles the
image is entirely up to it.

If you are serving the images via HTTP, yourtech is correct -- you
need to change the Content-Type header generated by your web server.
How to do this varies from server to server, however, so to get an
appropriate answer, you'll need to let us know what web server
software you're using.

I don't think it can be done if they are getting the file through your
FTP server.  You CAN do this through HTTP by changing the MIMETYPE
header in the HTTP header to BINARY/FILE... this is done on IIS with a
"response.header()" function... something like that anyhow.  I'd give
you EXACT answers if I was a "answer" person here and collecting the
$$$.

I've done this for images, PDFs, Word docs, etc, so they don't show in
the browser.