Rails - Jun 2005 - Inline Attachment Problems

Has anyone run into trouble getting Safari to play wav files inline  
using a send_data method?

It seems there is some voodoo that needs to happen to get Safari to  
handle inline wav files, beyond adding the "inline" disposition.

So far sending a simple .wav file using send_data with a content_type  
of "audio/wav". Like so:

     send_data(attach.body, :filename =>attach.filename, :type =>  
attach.content_type, :disposition => "inline" )

It works in Omniweb and Firefox, but fails in Safari 2 and Opera 8.

If you take away the inline method then Safari and Opera will  
download the file correctly.


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On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Lon Baker wrote:
> Has anyone run into trouble getting Safari to play wav files inline  
> using a send_data method?
>
> It seems there is some voodoo that needs to happen to get Safari to  
> handle inline wav files, beyond adding the "inline" disposition.
>
> So far sending a simple .wav file using send_data with a  
> content_type of "audio/wav". Like so:
>
>     send_data(attach.body, :filename =>attach.filename, :type =>  
> attach.content_type, :disposition => "inline" )
>
> It works in Omniweb and Firefox, but fails in Safari 2 and Opera 8.
>
> If you take away the inline method then Safari and Opera will  
> download the file correctly.
I''m not familiar with using sound files in particular, but we did  
have to set the Content-Type header for our video files:

     @headers["Content-Type"] = "video/x-ms-asf"

This was set in the controller''s action that gets invoked before  
sending the actual video stream data.

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)




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