I received an interesting email today where a fellow was trying to make sure that all browsers could successfully download his company's MSI installer. He had found a blog post that I wrote SIX YEARS AGO on the Content-Disposition header and some trouble I'd had with Check Images. Just in case you're not clear, 6 years is like a century years on the internet. Here's a little snippet from my incredibly old blog post: HTTP Headers are name values pairs, so they are easily added with the Response object in ASP or ASP.NET You use it like this (the HTTP Headers): HTTP/1.1 200 OK <snip> Content-Disposition: filename=checkimage.jpg Content-Length: 76127 Content-Type: image/JPEG Or, if you want to immediately prompt the user with...(read more) ...
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