Re: [PHP] Re: IE download problem

[Bogdan Stancescu]

I was thinking the same. But until we can squeeze some information about 
the actual error from Luis, I think we're stuck.

Bogdan

Warren Vail wrote:

Could the problem be the associations stored in the windows system registry?

I've had problems trying to download files whose name ends in a suffix that
is registered as being associated with a given program (i.e. .txt with
notepad, .doc with word).  I believe that IE tries to open the file in the
registered application and Netscape doesn't always do that (could be wrong
here, but that's how it seemed to me).
Warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Lebron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:54 AM
To: 'pete M'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: IE download problem
I tried your code. I'm still getting the same errors.

thanks,

Luis

-----Original Message-----
From: pete M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: IE download problem
thsi si a nighmare area..... and loast days on same problem

This works for me.. hope it does for you

$file = $_GET['file'];
$path = '/www/cgi-bin/docu/personal/'.$file;
         //force download dialog
     header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n");
     header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"\n");
     header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n");
     header("Content-length: " . filesize($path) . "\n");
        
     //send file contents
     $fp=fopen($path, "r");
     fpassthru($fp);


Luis Lebron wrote:

I am working on a script to force downloading a file. The script works
fine

with NS (4.8 and 7) but does not work correctly with IE 6.0
I have looked at examples on php.net and have googled for a solution, but
still can't find a solution. I think IE wants to download the script
instead

of the file.

Here's what the code I'm working on looks like:

<?php 
$sender=$_GET["sender"];
$filename=$_GET["filename"];

//Data validation goes here

$filePath="../users/".$sender."/".$filename;
if(file_exists($filePath))
{
 Header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filePath));
 Header("Content-type: application/download");
 Header("Content-Disposition-type: attachment");
 Header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$filename."\"\n");
 Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
 $fp = fopen($filePath,"rb");
 fpassthru($fp);
} 
?>

The funny thing is that I have a similar script that I use to download an
sql file and it works correctly.
Luis R. Lebron
Sigmatech, Inc


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