#1551 new defect

WUI: the Upload results page should have both view and download links

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: eventually
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.9.0a2
Keywords: usability wui Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

The Download link on the WUI results page causes a browser to download the file rather than view it. This is fine, but there should also be a view link.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed at 2011-09-30T17:09:39Z by zooko

I like the idea, but I'm not sure how to accomplish it.

Immutable uploads don't include metadata about the file type, not even a filename whose extension provides a hint. Therefore we can't really tell the browser what to do with the file other than download it as type "application/octet-stream".

Perhaps the immutable upload could accept a filename as well and construct a url of the form /file/$IMMCAP/@@named=/$FILENAME.

See also #827, #277, and #307.

comment:2 Changed at 2013-08-09T18:04:09Z by zooko

  • Milestone changed from 1.11.0 to eventually
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