On 10/2/14, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > When exposing original-size or otherwise huge file versions *for download* > when they're not intended to be viewed in browser, it may be wise to use > the 'Content-Disposition' HTTP header, as we do for XML output from > Special:Export. > > This should force most browsers to show a download dialog instead of > loading the giant file inline; you can then take your mega-image and stick > it in Photoshop or Gimp or whatever if you really wanted it (such programs > are optimized to work with huge files, while browsers are most emphatically > *not*). > > Of course this may mean we need to either filter the file through PHP to > add headers (scary!) or have a second "downloadable" URL where the swift or > caching infrastructure adds the headers. > > -- brion
That's already a thing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png?download --bawolff _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
