Binary files in DB : set name on retrieve

Hello,

I have a table that stores binary files. When I serve them up to the user, I call the following page (serveDocument.aspx?DocumentID=xxx) which holds only the following code and pass the document ID:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal senderAs Object,ByVal eAs System.EventArgs)Handles Me.Load
Dim DocumentIDAs Integer = Convert.ToInt32(Request.QueryString("DocumentID"))
'Connect to the database and bring back the image contents & MIME type for the specified picture Using myConnectionAs New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("kelly_lmConnectionString1").ConnectionString)
Const SQLAs String ="SELECT [Content_Type], [Document_Data] FROM [lm_Service_Detail_Documents] WHERE [Document_id] = @.Document_id"Dim myCommandAs New SqlCommand(SQL, myConnection)
 myCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@.Document_id", DocumentID)
 myConnection.Open()
Dim myReaderAs SqlDataReader = myCommand.ExecuteReader
If myReader.ReadThen Response.ContentType = myReader("Content_Type").ToString()
 Response.BinaryWrite(myReader("Document_Data"))
End If myReader.Close() myConnection.Close()End Using
End Sub

It works perfectly. But heres the thing: I want users to be able to right click on the link and chose 'Save Target As'. In IE 7, this works fine. In FireFox it saves the document as 'serveDocument.aspx'. Is there any way toinjectthe filename that I want to save the document as?

Thank you.

Add this Header also

context.Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
context.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + filename+".txt" + "\"");

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What does 'context' refer to?

And, are you saying I shouldn't set the ContentType to the actual type of file?

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REmove the context

it uses to html encode when you are using http handler

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Well, that partially works. When a user clicks the linkthen saves the file, the correct name is present. But, my issue isn't that... I want the user to be able to right click the link and 'Save Link As...' with the correct filename. When I do that, it still says 'documentServe.aspx'.

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Hi,

But heres the thing: I want users to be able to right click on the link and chose 'Save Target As'. In IE 7, this works fine. In FireFox it saves the document as 'serveDocument.aspx'.

From your description, it seems that when you right click on the link and choose the 'save target as' in IE7, you can got the whole url with parameters, but not in FireFox, right?

If so, I'm afraid that the behavior is related to the Explorer, and based on my knowledge, there's not any workaround to fix the problem, since working mechanism for IE and FireFox is just not the same.

Thanks.

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