James R. wrote:

That would be browser dependent, something you have no control over. Maybe you can include a little text message saying "right-click save as" for the users not intelligent enough to figure it out themselves.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:00 PM
Subject: [PHP] force download


some of my users are complaining that when they try download media files (mp3, mpeg, etc) their media player opens and doesn't allow them to physically download the media. These are IE users, firefox seems to like my code, but IE refuses to download the file and plays it instead..

can anyone view my code and see how i can force media file downloads on IE?

--snip--

header('Cache-control: max-age=31536000');
header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time() + 31536000) . ' GMT'); header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $file['date']) . ' GMT');

if ($extension != 'txt')
{
   header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=\"$file[type]\"");
}
else
{
   // force txt files to prevent XSS
   header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file[type]\"");
}

header('Content-Length: ' . $file['size']);

switch($extension)
{
   case 'zip':
       $headertype = 'application/zip';
       break;
  case 'exe':
       $headertype = 'application/octet-stream';
       break;

   case 'mp3':
       $headertype = 'audio/mpeg';
       break;

   case 'wav':
       $headertype = 'audio/wav';
       break;
  case 'mpg':
       $headertype = 'video/mpeg';
       break;

   case 'avi':
       $headertype = 'video/avi';
       break;

   default:
       $headertype = 'unknown/unknown';
}

header('Content-type: ' . $headertype);

--/snip--




there has to be a way to tell stupid IE Not to open the damn file. i'll be damned to find a way.


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