How to ignore "Content-Disposition: attachment" in Firefox - http

How can I cause Firefox to ignore the Content-Disposition: attachment header?
I find it absolutely annoying that I can't view an image in the browser, because it asks me to download it.
I don't want to download the file, I just want to view it in the browser. If the browser doesn't have a plugin to handle it, then it should ask to download.
E.g. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed as a plugin for Firefox. I click a link to a PDF, and it asks me to save it, when it should open in the browser using the plugin. This is the behaviour if the server does not send the Content-Disposition: attachment header in the response.
Firefox 3.6.6
Windows XP SP3

Legacy InlineDisposition 1.0.2.4 by Kai Liu can fix this problem.
In the Classic Add-ons Archive at:
caa:addon/inlinedisposition

The "Open in browser" extension is useful for formats supported natively by the browser, not sure about PDF.
Legacy version 1.18 (for users of browsers such as Waterfox Classic) is in the Classic Add-ons Archive at:
caa:addon/open-in-browser

I also found this tonight that totally prevents Firefox from littering your desktop with downloads. It's actually a redirect fix to the hidden /private/temp folder in MAC. Genius.
You can mimic the Windows behaviour simply by changing [Firefox's]
download directory to /tmp.
To do this, open Firefox's General preferences pane, under Save
Downloaded Files To select [choose].... In the dialog that appears,
hit Shift-Command-G to bring up the Go to Folder dialog.
In this dialog, simply type /tmp, hit OK, then hit Select in the
main window.

Well, that's the purpose of disposition type "attachment".
The default behavior (when the header is absent) should be to display in-line.
Maybe there's a configuration problem in your browser, or the Reader plugin?

For PDFs there is an addon called PDF-Download which overrides any attempt to download a PDF and lets the user decide how they want it downloaded (inline, save, external, etc). You could probably modify it to work for other filetypes too.

You could write a firefox extension that removes the disposition header for PDF files. This would be a fairly simple extension.

Since I was looking for a solution and no available add-on was actually working with my Firefox 31.0 (Ubuntu) I decided to try creating my own add-on.
The code if you want to archive a similar goal or just want to know how it works.
console.log("starting addon to disable content-disposition...");
//getting necessary objects
var {Cc, Ci} = require("chrome");
//creating the observer object which alters the Content-Disposition header to inline
var httpResponseObserver = {
//gets fired whenever a response is getting processed
observe: function(subject, topic, data) {
if (topic == "http-on-examine-response") {
var httpChannel = subject.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIHttpChannel);
httpChannel.setResponseHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline", false);
}
},
//needed for this.observerServer.addObserver --> without addObserver will fail
get observerService() {
return Cc["#mozilla.org/observer-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIObserverService);
},
//used to register with an observer
register: function() {
console.log("register with an observer to get response-events");
this.observerService.addObserver(this, "http-on-examine-response", false);
},
//used to unregister from the observer
unregister: function() {
console.log("unregister from observer");
this.observerService.removeObserver(this, "http-on-examine-response");
}
};
//gets called at enable or install of the add-on
exports.main = function(options, callbacks) {
console.log("content-dispostion main method got invoked");
//call register to make httpResponseObserver.observe get fired whenever a response gets processed
httpResponseObserver.register();
};
//gets called on disable or uninstall
exports.onUnload = function(reason) {
console.log("content-dispostion unloaded");
//unregister from observer
httpResponseObserver.unregister();
};
/*
//not needed!!! just test code for altering http-request header
var httpRequestObserver =
{
observe: function(subject, topic, data)
{
console.log("in observe...");
console.log("topic is: " + topic);
if (topic == "http-on-modify-request") {
var httpChannel = subject.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIHttpChannel);
httpChannel.setRequestHeader("X-Hello", "World", false);
}
},
get observerService() {
return Cc["#mozilla.org/observer-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIObserverService);
},
register: function()
{
this.observerService.addObserver(this, "http-on-modify-request", false);
},
unregister: function()
{
this.observerService.removeObserver(this, "http-on-modify-request");
}
};
httpRequestObserver.register();
*/
As an alternative you can get my xpi-File to directly install the add-on in Firefox. If you want to disable the "Content-Disposition" altering just deactivate the add-on ;-).
http://www.file-upload.net/download-9374691/content-disposition_remover.xpi.html

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Branch Deep Linking not working in Google Analytics hitCallback

I'm using both Google Analytics and branch.io in this website.
The website is designed for mobile.
The problem is that when clicking the banner with text "OPEN", the app cannot be opened.
Here is the code for the click:
$scope.openApp = () => {
let appOpened = false;
const open = () => {
if (!appOpened) {
appOpened = true;
branch.deepviewCta();
}
};
$timeout(open, 1000);
ga('send', 'event', 'homepage', 'download', {
hitCallback() {
open();
}
});
};
If I get rid of the GA code, it works fine:
$scope.openApp = () => {
let appOpened = false;
const open = () => {
if (!appOpened) {
appOpened = true;
branch.deepviewCta();
}
};
$timeout(open, 1000);
open();
};
The reason I put open() in hitCallback is to make sure GA sends out the hit because open() will redirect to another page.
Can you help me?
Alex from Branch.io here:
The Branch deepviewCta() function works on iOS 9+ by triggering an automatic redirect to a Universal Link URL (which opens the app) and then going to a fallback URL if that fails. But Apple is very specific about the situations in which a Universal Link is allowed to launch the app (including things like how long of a pause is allowed before redirection). Of course these restrictions are not public, so all we can do is guess. My suspicion is that putting the deepviewCta() function inside a GA callback is falling outside of Apple’s rules, so the app never opens and you are instead being sent to the fallback URL.
I can think of two options here:
You can build some way to trigger the GA and Branch functions separately so that they don’t conflict with Apple’s requirements.
We actually have a brand new, one-click integration with Google Analytics, which you can read about here and here. If you set that up, you’ll get all Branch-related events automatically instead of needing to manually collect link click data.
Hopefully that helps!

Best way to retrieve image from server using ajax [duplicate]

Is it possible to reload an image with an identical file name from a server using jQuery?
For example, I have an image on a page, however, the physical image can change based on user actions. Note, this does not mean the file name changes, but the actual file itself.
ie:
User views image on default page
User uploads new image
Default image on page does not change(I assume this is due to the file name being identical, the browser uses the cached version)
Regardless of how often the code below is called, the same issue persists.
$("#myimg").attr("src", "/myimg.jpg");
In the jQuery documentation, the "load" function would be perfect if it had a default method of firing the event as opposed to binding a callback function to a successful/complete load of an element.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
It sounds like it's your browser caching the image (which I now notice you wrote in your question). You can force the browser to reload the image by passing an extra variable like so:
d = new Date();
$("#myimg").attr("src", "/myimg.jpg?"+d.getTime());
It's probably not the best way, but I've solved this problem in the past by simply appending a timestamp to the image URL using JavaScript:
$("#myimg").attr("src", "/myimg.jpg?timestamp=" + new Date().getTime());
Next time it loads, the timestamp is set to the current time and the URL is different, so the browser does a GET for the image instead of using the cached version.
This could be one of the two problems you mention yourself.
The server is caching the image
The jQuery does not fire or at least doesn't update the attribute
To be honest, I think it's number two. Would be a lot easier if we could see some more jQuery. But for a start, try remove the attribute first, and then set it again. Just to see if that helps:
$("#myimg").removeAttr("src").attr("src", "/myimg.jpg");
Even if this works, post some code since this is not optimal, imo :-)
with one line with no worries about hardcoding the image src into the javascript (thanks to jeerose for the ideas:
$("#myimg").attr("src", $("#myimg").attr("src")+"?timestamp=" + new Date().getTime());
To bypass caching and avoid adding infinite timestamps to the image url, strip the previous timestamp before adding a new one, this is how I've done it.
//refresh the image every 60seconds
var xyro_refresh_timer = setInterval(xyro_refresh_function, 60000);
function xyro_refresh_function(){
//refreshes an image with a .xyro_refresh class regardless of caching
//get the src attribute
source = jQuery(".xyro_refresh").attr("src");
//remove previously added timestamps
source = source.split("?", 1);//turns "image.jpg?timestamp=1234" into "image.jpg" avoiding infinitely adding new timestamps
//prep new src attribute by adding a timestamp
new_source = source + "?timestamp=" + new Date().getTime();
//alert(new_source); //you may want to alert that during developement to see if you're getting what you wanted
//set the new src attribute
jQuery(".xyro_refresh").attr("src", new_source);
}
This works great! however if you reload the src multiple times, the timestamp gets concatenated to the url too. I've modified the accepted answer to deal with that.
$('#image_reload_button').on('click', function () {
var img = $('#your_image_selector');
var src = img.attr('src');
var i = src.indexOf('?dummy=');
src = i != -1 ? src.substring(0, i) : src;
var d = new Date();
img.attr('src', src + '?dummy=' + d.getTime());
});
Have you tried resetting the image containers html. Of course if it's the browser that is caching then this wouldn't help.
function imageUploadComplete () {
$("#image_container").html("<img src='" + newImageUrl + "'>");
}
Some times actually solution like -
$("#Image").attr("src", $('#srcVal').val()+"&"+Math.floor(Math.random()*1000));
also not refresh src properly, try out this, it worked for me ->
$("#Image").attr("src", "dummy.jpg");
$("#Image").attr("src", $('#srcVal').val()+"&"+Math.floor(Math.random()*1000));
Using "#" as a delimiter might be useful
My images are kept in a "hidden" folder above "www" so that only logged users are allowed access to them. For this reason I cannot use the ordinary <img src=/somefolder/1023.jpg> but I send requests to the server like <img src=?1023> and it responds by sending back the image kept under name '1023'.
The application is used for image cropping, so after an ajax request to crop the image, it is changed as content on the server but keeps its original name. In order to see the result of the cropping, after the ajax request has been completed, the first image is removed from the DOM and a new image is inserted with the same name <img src=?1023>.
To avoid cashing I add to the request the "time" tag prepended with "#" so it becomes like <img src=?1023#1467294764124>. The server automatically filters out the hash part of the request and responds correctly by sending back my image kept as '1023'. Thus I always get the last version of the image without much server-side decoding.
Based on #kasper Taeymans' answer.
If u simply need reload image (not replace it's src with smth new), try:
$(function() {
var img = $('#img');
var refreshImg = function(img) {
// the core of answer is 2 lines below
var dummy = '?dummy=';
img.attr('src', img.attr('src').split(dummy)[0] + dummy + (new Date()).getTime());
// remove call on production
updateImgVisualizer();
};
// for display current img url in input
// for sandbox only!
var updateImgVisualizer = function() {
$('#img-url').val(img.attr('src'));
};
// bind img reload on btn click
$('.img-reloader').click(function() {
refreshImg(img);
});
// remove call on production
updateImgVisualizer();
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<img id="img" src="http://dummyimage.com/628x150/">
<p>
<label>
Current url of img:
<input id="img-url" type="text" readonly style="width:500px">
</label>
</p>
<p>
<button class="img-reloader">Refresh</button>
</p>
I may have to reload the image source several times. I found a solution with Lodash that works well for me:
$("#myimg").attr('src', _.split($("#myimg").attr('src'), '?', 1)[0] + '?t=' + _.now());
An existing timestamp will be truncated and replaced with a new one.
If you need a refresh of the exact URL and your browser has the image cached, you can use AJAX and a request header to force your browser to download a new copy (even if it isn't stale yet). Here's how you'd do that:
var img = $("#myimg");
var url = img.attr("src");
$.ajax({
url: url,
headers: { "Cache-Control": "no-cache" }
}).done(function(){
// Refresh is complete, assign the image again
img.attr("src", url);
});
Nothing else worked for me because while appending a token to the query string would download the new image, it didn't invalidate the image in the cache at the old URL so future requests would continue to show the old image. The old URL is the only one sent to the browser, and the server was directing the client to cache the image for longer than it should.
If this still doesn't refresh the image for you, see if this answer helps. For more information, here is documentation on the Cache-Control request header.
In the html:
foreach (var item in images) {
<Img src="#Url.Content(item.ImageUrl+"?"+DateTime.Now)" >
}
I simply do this in html:
<script>
$(document).load(function () {
d = new Date();
$('#<%= imgpreview.ClientID %>').attr('src','');
});
</script>
And reload the image in code behind like this:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
image.Src = "/image.jpg"; //url caming from database
}
}

NHP Theme Options Framework using Wordpress 3.5 Media Manager

Could anyone help me make a new field type for NHP Theme Options Framework based on "upload" type so that it would use the new "Media Manager" that Wordpress uses since 3.5 instead of Media Uploader. This would be very useful for use with sliders.
Maybe this post would be helpful.
you're in luck i needed this same functionality. I managed to do it by looking at the code and applying the same override techniques as the the old media manager.
In fact i've written a tutorial about it here.
Here's the javascript code:
(function($){
var doc = {
ready: function(){
// initialize only if our button is in the page
if($('#btn_browse_files').length > 0){
slider.init();
}
}
},
slider = {
// the following 2 objects would be our backup containers
// as we will be replacing the default media handlers
media_send_attachment: null,
media_close_window: null,
init: function(){
// bind the button's click the browse_clicked handler
$('#btn_browse_files').click(slider.browse_clicked);
},
browse_clicked: function(event){
// cancel the event so we won't be navigated to href="#"
event.preventDefault();
// backup editor objects first
slider.media_send_attachment = wp.media.editor.send.attachment;
slider.media_close_window = wp.media.editor.remove;
// override the objects with our own
wp.media.editor.send.attachment = slider.media_accept;
wp.media.editor.remove = slider.media_close;
// open up the media manager window
wp.media.editor.open();
},
media_accept: function(props, attachment){
// this function is called when the media manager sends in media info
// when the user clicks the "Insert into Post" button
// this may be called multiple times (one for each selected file)
// you might be interested in the following:
// alert(attachment.id); // this stands for the id of the media attachment passed
// alert(attachment.url); // this is the url of the media attachment passed
// for now let's log it the console
// not you can do anything Javascript-ly possible here
console.log(props);
console.log(attachment);
},
media_close: function(id){
// this function is called when the media manager wants to close
// (either close button or after sending the selected items)
// restore editor objects from backup
wp.media.editor.send.attachment = slider.media_send_attachment;
wp.media.editor.remove = slider.media_close_window;
// nullify the backup objects to free up some memory
slider.media_send_attachment= null;
slider.media_close_window= null;
// trigger the actual remove
wp.media.editor.remove(id);
}
};
$(document).ready(doc.ready);
})(jQuery);
fyi...http://reduxframework.com/ is a fork of NHP and has added 3.5 media loader and also fixed other areas of NHP.
I just switched over to and so far not to bad.
See the usage in our vafpress theme framework github code snippet:
media manager with WP < 3.5 fallback
in the code, there is also this variable (vp_wp.use_new_media_upload), that you will need to 'expose' into your JS code via wp_localize_script, that variable needed to state whether the Wordpress you're running is under 3.5 or not, if it's under 3.5 then it's should not use the new media manager, and use the old method using thickbox media-upload.php iframe.
NHP has just merged with Redux Framework and Redux 3.0 has been released. It can be run as a Wordpress Plugin or Embedded within a theme. You should really give the new version a try.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/redux-framework/
It has full Wordpress media 3.5 support, and then some. It not only stores the media URL, but also the ID and full-dimension size.
Seriously, check it out.

Volume muting when player is hidden / shown with jQuery

I've coded a script for this web page.
That allows me to use the thumbnails on the right hand side in order to switch the 'main video'.
All appears to work fine, however if you play one video and then switch to another, and then switch BACK to the video that was originally playing, then the volume is muted when you continue watching it.
I have noticed that you can get around it by clicking the volume tool inside the player, but the average user most likely won't figure this out.
I've tried using the setVolume() method on something like:
$('#media video')
But FF tells me that the method doesn't exist. Could this be because I'm just trying it from within one of my other js files whereas the media player script itself is setup with Wordpress? I'm using the WP plugin you see.
Has anyone else had this issue?
Here is my .js that switches the videos if that helps:
$(document).ready(function() {
// swap media
$('#media-feed .thumb a').click(function() {
var mediaId = $(this).prev('input').val();
$('#media .content').each(function() {
if($(this).css('display') == 'block') {
$(this).fadeOut(350);
}
});
$('#media-' + mediaId).delay(500).fadeIn(350);
return false;
});
// swap sidebar detail
$('#media-feed .thumb a').mouseenter(function() {
var mediaId = $(this).prev('input').val();
$('#media-feed .detail').each(function() {
if($(this).css('display') == 'block') {
$(this).slideUp(125, function() {
var currentDetail = $('#media-detail-' + mediaId);
currentDetail.slideDown(125, function() {
currentDetail.css('display', 'block');
});
});
}
});
return false;
});
});
Also another problem I'm having is in Internet Explorer (all versions). See above, where I said about switching from one video to another, in other browsers the videos automatically pause when you click on another thumbnail. However in IE the videos continue to play. So basically, you'd have to pause the video and THEN change main video by clicking one of the thumbnails. Again, not very user friendly.
Does anyone know of a way I can get it to function like in other browsers? I can see that even IE doesn't have this problem on this page where the Fancybox plugin is used.
So that makes me think there must be a way to solve it in IE on the home page.
If anyone has any advice on this too that would be great!
Thanks.

Image load timeout in Internet Explorer

I have a page for an internal app that displays document images streamed from a document storage system using a web service. The problem I am having is that when a user does their search they may get hundreds of hits, which I have to display on one large page so they can print them all. This works fine in Firefox, but in IE it stops loading the images after a while so I get a hundred or so displayed and the rest just have the broken image symbol. Is there a setting somewhere that I can change this timeout?
If the issue is indeed a timeout, you might be able to work around it by using a "lazy load" script and adding new images to the document only after existing images have loaded.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but here's a simple example I threw together and tested. Instead of this:
<img src="image001.jpg" />
<img src="image002.jpg" />
<img src="image003.jpg" />
<img src="image004.jpg" />
<!-- Etc etc etc -->
You could do this:
<div id="imgsGoHere">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function crossBrowserEventAttach(objectRef, eventName, functionRef)
{
try {
objectRef.addEventListener(eventName, functionRef, false);
}
catch(err) {
try {
objectRef.attachEvent("on" + eventName, functionRef);
}
catch(err2) {
// event attachment failed
}
}
}
function addImageToPage()
{
var newImageElement = document.createElement("img");
newImageElement.src = imageArray[nextImageNumber];
var targetElement = document.getElementById("imgsGoHere");
targetElement.appendChild(newImageElement);
nextImageNumber++;
if (nextImageNumber < imageArray.length) {
crossBrowserEventAttach(newImageElement, "load", addImageToPage);
crossBrowserEventAttach(newImageElement, "error", addImageToPage);
}
}
var nextImageNumber = 0;
var imageArray = new Array();
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image001.jpg";
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image002.jpg";
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image003.jpg";
// .
// .
// .
// Snip hundreds of rows
// .
// .
// .
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image999.jpg";
addImageToPage();
</script>
Each image is added to the page only after the previous image loads (or fails to load). If your browser is timing out, I think that will fix it.
Of course, the problem might actually not be a timeout, but rather that you're running out of memory/system resources and IE is giving up. Or there might be an IE DOM limitation like Sra said.
No final solution, but some hints...
I think the ie Dom hangs up. I,ve seen this in other cases. I needed simply to show the images and used a js which loads the image the time they came into focus, but that want work if you directly hit print I think. Can you use the new css ability to store imagedata directly instead of links. That should solve your problem. I am not quite sure but I think it is supported since ie 7
My guess is that you have to work around the IE setting, the easiest way to do it is simply not showing images that are not loaded or replacing them with a default image:
your html:
<img src="http://domain.com/image.jpg" />
your js:
$('img').load(function(){
// ... loaded
}).error(function(){
// ... not loaded, replace
$(this).attr('src','/whatever/default.jpg');
// ... not loaded, hide
$(this).hide();
});
That is a problem with microsoft. Unfortunately, this is a setting that would have to be changed on every single computer, as there is no remote way to alter it. To change it on your computer, try opening regedit and adding the RecieveTimeout DWORD with a Value of (#of minutes)*6000. Hope this helps-CodeKid1001
Edit: Sorry about that, I forgot to put in the file path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
I used something similar to laod HD pictures as a background using ASP Pages
But i used jQuery to handle the images and its loading. This is a sample for 1 image but with a bit of tweaking you can load dynamically
myImage = new Image();
$(myImage).load(function ()
{
$(this).hide(); //Stops the loading effect of large images. can be removed
$('.csBackground li').append(this); //Append image to where you need it
$(myImage).show();
}).attr('src', settings.images[0]) //I pass an array from ASP code behind so 0 can be 'i'
.error( function { checkImages(); } ) //try and relaod the image or something?
So instead of changing the timeout- just try and reload the images on error.
Otherwise i only found a solution that is client specific (HTTP Timeout)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813827

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