Caching Images on the clients Machine

[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?

[etully]

For security reasons, it's actually designed into the system that you can't just dump files into the user's directories from the web browser.

There are two options: One is to create a zip file, post it on your site, and ask the people to download the file, and unzip it in a specific location that the viewer can see. The other option is to create an .EXE file (I assume your users are Windows users if they are using some client side image viewer). They download and run the .EXE file which writes the images to the specific location.

Of course, this would only work if the users know you personally and trust that your .EXE file is safe. Even then, they would be dumb to run such an .EXE file.

[abuhassan1979]

thanks.....

since the site is on the intranet i have decided to setup a share folder from where the images can be accessed