From koch at id-team.com  Thu Feb  5 04:08:51 2009
From: koch at id-team.com (Christoph Koch)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:08:51 +0100
Subject: [s3-dev] Simply downloading s3objects with a save as dialog box
Message-ID: <498AACA3.6060305@id-team.com>

Hi!

I am trying to directly stream an S3Object to a client, without loading 
it via my web server and then sending it to the client with send_file() 
or send_data(). At first I was using a simple redirect_to to the url of 
the s3-object. However I like to have a dialog box with a save as 
button. I am having this problem because i want to enable downloading 
jpgs. The redirect_to does not work for me because the browser simply 
shows the image.

Can someone help me out please? I am trying to solve this issue now 
since 5 days...

Brgds
Chris

From mdchaney at michaelchaney.com  Thu Feb  5 09:25:54 2009
From: mdchaney at michaelchaney.com (Michael Chaney)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:25:54 -0600
Subject: [s3-dev] Simply downloading s3objects with a save as dialog box
In-Reply-To: <498AACA3.6060305@id-team.com>
References: <498AACA3.6060305@id-team.com>
Message-ID: <3b456edd0902050625h2ae81df1pec1ad7d674dcdf8f@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Christoph Koch <koch at id-team.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to directly stream an S3Object to a client, without loading it
> via my web server and then sending it to the client with send_file() or
> send_data(). At first I was using a simple redirect_to to the url of the
> s3-object. However I like to have a dialog box with a save as button. I am
> having this problem because i want to enable downloading jpgs. The
> redirect_to does not work for me because the browser simply shows the image.

Use a content disposition header:

MyS3Object.store(asset_name, 'nada', { :content_type => 'text/plain',
:content_disposition => "attachment; filename=\"pic.jpg\"" })

Michael
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