[mapserver-users] trouble with TIFs

[Lowell Filak]

Is there possibly an action associated with the file type that is actually causing the lockup, ie. download and then open in Imaging? Where the actual lockup is in Imaging instead of the browser.
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Kent S Ridl <kridl at cs.und.edu> on Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:04:07 -0500 (CDT).

> Hey all!
> 
> Sorry this isn't a mapserver-specific question, but this is the best place
> I could think of for help.
> 
> Does anyone out there know about any issues regarding tiffs (color
> and greyscale) and any of the web browsers' FTP capabilities out there?
> Or do you perhaps know where I could research the issues further?  I've
> looked just about everywhere I can think of, but to no avail.
> 
> Specifically, we have most of our problems with very large, greyscale tifs
> locking up IE when initiating a file x-fer (all smaller images and large
> color images have worked just fine so far).  We've had similar but mixed
> results with various Windoze Netscape versions; some behave exactly like
> IE, but some won't allow any x-fers.  The Linux boxes seem alright,
> however (as always!).
> 
> The only workaround I can think of is to write a PHP function to use for
> downloading our images rather than the browser's FTP, but that pretty much
> seems like re-inventing the wheel to me.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Kent Ridl