I don't know what your planned workaround is, but have you considered the Blobstore for saving your images?
>From your comment, it looks like you're using detailed/photo-quality images, and uploading them as part of your application deployment. By moving images to the Blobstore you don't need to redeploy your app every time you need to add an image. Also the Blobstore allows you to specify the mime type of an image, so you can retain the "open image in a new tab" functionality. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL My Go side project: http://invalidmail.com/ On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:08:52 AM UTC-5, john wrote: > > Well, if the .png file contained alot of detail or was a photograph, for > example, I might use the browser function "Open image in a new tab" to look > at it in more detail. But if I do that with png images served by appengine, > the resulting behavior -- an image download in Windows, or a quicktime logo > in OS X -- makes my app look more like a high school project with a bug in > it than a professional site. Rather than live with this strange behavior, > I'll apply a workaround. > > Side note: I see that this issue was first reported to the Chrome team 3+ > years ago (issue > 25293<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25293>), > so it's obviously not a priority at Google. > > > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:40:13 AM UTC-4, Julie wrote: >> >> Is there any particular reason why you are trying to access the png files >> directly? If they are displayed in an HTML page, they work fine. >> >> This SO article may also help >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15179915/serve-static-png-files-with-an-image-png-content-type-not-image-x-png >> >> >> >> >> On 14 May 2013 00:41, john <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yep, my problem stems from the fact that appengine is setting content >>> type to *image/x-png* instead of *image/png*. Is anyone else seeing >>> this with their image uploads? Why would appengine be doing this? I suppose >>> a corollary question is why can't Chrome browser handle image/x-png type... >>> >>> I know I can workaround things by creating a subdirectory for png files >>> only -- so I can set the mime type explicitly -- but I really suspect there >>> is something wrong in my setup or something else that I am missing. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:43:50 PM UTC-4, john wrote: >>>> >>>> Using curl: >>>> Content-Type: image/x-png >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:22:14 PM UTC-4, timh wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Use headers plugin in chrome or wget to examine headers. If it's >>>>> being served with a content type of application/octet-stream it would >>>>> normally be downloaded. >>>>> >>>>> T >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, May 13, 2013 9:22:40 AM UTC+8, john wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I have some .png files in a directory that is configured as a static >>>>>> file handler. When I point my browser to the URL for any of the images, >>>>>> the >>>>>> result is not what I expect: >>>>>> >>>>>> - On Windows/Chrome, the image file is not displayed, but instead >>>>>> it is automatically downloaded. >>>>>> - On OSX/Chrome and OSX/Safari, a browser message indicates that >>>>>> a Quicktime plugin is needed. When I click the "Run this time" >>>>>> button, the >>>>>> Quicktime logo is displayed with a big question mark in it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have other GAE apps with static .png files that display in the >>>>>> browser as I expect. Can anyone help me figure out why this app doesn't? >>>>>> One URL which shows this behavior is http://calendar-ot.appspot.** >>>>>> com/static/images/**CalendarTools.png<http://calendar-ot.appspot.com/static/images/CalendarTools.png> >>>>>> . >>>>>> For reference, I have pasted my app.yaml file to http://pastebin.com/ >>>>>> **dRZJZRd7 <http://pastebin.com/dRZJZRd7> . >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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