Actually, I think you may have misunderstood. On Mozilla (Mac), Netscape (Mac) and
Safari the script works exactly as I have intended: sending the "Content-Type:
application/octet-stream" header causes the file to download; sending the
"Content-Type: video/quicktime" causes the file to be played within the browser. On
IE (Mac OS X), some files with the .mov extension download when the "Content-Type:
application/octet-stream" header is sent, while others play in-browser, while all play
in-browser, as they should.
>From what I understand, "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" header should ALWAYS
>cause a download. This is not an issue of post-processing (the settings in the
>browser which tell it to open a file in a certain application AFTER the file has been
>downloaded - that is not a problem). BTW, even if I change my preferences in IE to
>save .mov files to disk, they still play in-browser.
After re-compiling PHP with mime-magic enabled, the mime_content_type() function is
returning "video/quicktime" for the file which does not download and "text/plain" for
the one which does (even though the "text/plain" file plays fine both in-browser and
once it is downloaded). In any case, that will be my next area of investigation.
At 12:03 PM -0800 on 3/25/03, Jennifer Goodie wrote:
>This is not a MAC IE problem, it is the way browsers work. If the MIME type
>is mapped to an application, the browser will launch the application. IE
>does it inline, while Netscape tends to launch it separately.
>
>You can send false headers with a made up type and a missing file extension,
>but then the browser will not know what type of file it is and the save as
>is harder for the user as they have to put the right extension on. It is a
>work around, but a really poor one.
>
>header("Content-disposition: filename=$filenamewithoutextension");
>header("Content-type:reallyreallyreallybigcsv");
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Step Schwarz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:49 AM
>To: Daniel Leighton; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Mac IE File download problem - any solutions?
>
>
>[...]
>> The problem: When downloading certain files on a Mac using IE 5.x, files
>are
>> displayed within a browser window instead of downloading. This seems to
>occur
>> mostly with quicktime files (.mov, .mp3). Some quicktime files work,
>while
>> others with the same extension do not.
>[...]
>
>Hi Daniel,
>
>I believe this is a browser setting, is it not? Using the default setup of
>Explorer 5.2 for Mac, a clicked .mov file will play in IE.
>
>To change this behavior, go to Explorer > Preferences... > File Helpers,
>select QuickTime Movie and click Change... then switch Handling from "View
>with Browser" to "Save to File".
>
>I would be surprised if a file header could override this.. but if you find
>a way, please let us know!
>
>-Step
>
>
>
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