It's not the Zend Framework that causes this issue, as far as I know
it's entirely the browser. I have some legacy code that exhibits the
exact same thing and I never found a way around it.
Chris
Stephan Stapel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It appears to me that my first attempt to send this message was blocked, so
> I'm resending (sorry if this message should finally appear twice in the
> mailinglist!).
>
> I have trouble loading Office documents and pdf files through a action
> controller.
> My idea was to use Zend_Controller_Action::_response and fill it with
> necessary information:
>
>
> if (preg_match('/MSIE/', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
> {
> $this->_response->setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-store');
> $this->_response->setHeader('Cache-Control', 'no-cache');
> $this->_response->setHeader('Cache-Control', 'must-revalidate');
> }
>
> $this->_response->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/msword');
> $this->_response->setHeader('Content-Length' , $size);
> $this->_response->setHeader("Content-Disposition",
> "inline; filename=" . $filename);
>
> $data = file_get_contents($filename);
> $this->_response->setBody($data);
>
> This works perfectly for Firefox and IE 7.0.
> Unfortunately, I have trouble with the same code under IE 6.0 and lower (and
> can't make all visitors upgrade :( ). These browser versions don't use the
> Content-Disposition header to generate a filename for the file that would be
> opened in Word or Acrobat Reader. Afaik it instead uses the URI to generate
> the filename. So my idea was to create URIs like:
>
> http://localhost/app/FileLoader/openfile/filename/myfile.pdf
>
> with
>
> - 'FileLoader' as the controller,
> - 'openfile' as the action and
> - 'filename' param of value 'myfile.pdf'
>
> This almost works, a popup opens that asks me if I would like to open or save
> the file that is of type 'Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX'. Unfortunately,
> this file is named 'myfile_pdf' and when clicking 'open', I receive an error
> message.
>
> My idea was that this might have to do with default routing I'm using (I
> tried ZF1.5.0 and svn trunk).
>
> Do you have an idea what I might have to adjust to make the code safely open
> these documents in IE6?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stephan
>
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