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Caching Images on the clients Machine

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:56 am
by abuhassan1979
Hi

Forgive me its my fist time posting on forum.... trying to explain a problem in writing!

I am using and image viewer plugin to view tif files via a web browser. It can only use paths like "C:\image\test.tif" to view the files.... the problem that i have is that i need to download the images on to the client machine when a request is made for viewing that image and the client can view the image via the browser.... please note i tried using other paths such as http://test.com/image/test.tif .....

it doesnt use the http protocol please note i cant use any other plugin hence i need to find out how i can cache images locally......

basically what i want to do is when a request is made for an image i download it to the client and set the path for the viewer to the local machine and then when the viewer is loaded on the browser it can use the local image for viewing?

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:03 am
by Chris Corbyn
Don't TIF files render in web browsers by default? Actually that sounds reasonable I guess.

To cut a long story short you can't transparently download files to a remote client. You need to have the user download them ;)

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:06 am
by JayBird
d11wtq wrote:Don't TIF files render in web browsers by default?
Nope

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:21 am
by abuhassan1979
You can view file in the browser but you cant rotate zoom etc....

how does the inter tempfiles downloaded and will it be possible to do it that way?