[opencms-dev] Downloading images

[SCHEDENIG Marian]

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> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Woods
> Sent: Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006 10:19
> To: 'The OpenCms mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Downloading images
> 
> I don't know of a way using a URL parameter through standard 
> OpenCms, but you could always create a link to a JSP of your 
> own creation.  Your JSP would take as a URL parameter the 
> path to the image concerned, and declare itself as emitting 
> the appropriate content-type; it could pipe the image 
> contents to the JSP output stream.

I've been thinking about that. I'm reluctant to do it though... last
time I implemented an image download, it took me 2 weeks to get IE to
handle it correctly.

> Of course, you wouldn't 
> be able to statically export such resources, because Apache 
> would serve them up as straightforward image files.

Yes. I could still server the image through Apache for displaying, but
I'd have to go through my own JSP to download the image.

Thanks,
Marian.