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But it’s in Flickr, so all interaction is blocked including zoom.

I see about 600x400 pixels of that photo.

What a wonderful Internet we’ve made for ourselves.

There's a download button in the bottom right, if you hit Original you get the actual original. Here it is: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51847931721_c3feebd201_o...

I am just wondering what is it that prevents that link to open the image in a browser window but forces a download of it?

Usually it's a HTTP header that's sent to your browser: Content-Disposition: attachment

Thanks, I had always wondered why some sites behave differently with some file types. A bit annoying, if you just want to glance at something for a while but not keep it around for longer.

There are browser addons that force the browser to ignore this header, for chrome e.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/undisposition?hl=e....

Or content-disposition as of HTTP/2. Just verified with the browser console that it's sending that header (and using HTTP/2).

Specific to Flickr URLs, its the '_d' at the end. Remove it and you can view it normally in the browser. But as danielbln wrote, that 'Content-Disposition' header is what forces a download in general.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51847931721_c3feebd201_o...

Probably a courtesy from the website owner to not cause a runaway browser tab as it tries to render 60MB of image.

I mean the first internet-connected computers like the imac g3 had only 32 MB of memory.

Somehow I rage slapped my way out of that. No idea what I did.

I just don't understand the underlying motivation to lock things down like that. It like a cortisol fountain and I get wholly irrationally unreasonably mad. It's actually funny in retrospect.

Remember that time Yahoo made Flickr ridiculously slow to access from Europe, to the point where it wasn't actually usable? Lasted near 10 years I believe. Hah, good times.

Override zoom settings in your browser. A must have on mobile. Use it all the time.

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