Sweet!

-- brion

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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