On Thu, July 21, 2005 4:55 am, Chris Shiflett said:
> Christopher J. Umina wrote:
>> I currently have a script which streams data out of a MySQL database,
>> and prints the content headers correctly, however, when I use the
>> following line:
>>
>> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"". $filename ."\"");
>>
>> it prompts the user to download the file each time they go to the site.
>
> Then it works. :-)

But it will only work on *SOME* browsers -- those which honor the
johnny-come-lately Content-Disposition header.

Use Content-type: application/octet-stream to guarantee it gets downloaded
in ALL browsers.

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