On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, kyle.smith <kyle.sm...@inforonics.com>wrote:
> SSL occurs a layer above HTTP, so HTTP/1.1 is correct. HTTPS is not a > different data protocol, but a different transport protocol. > > HTH, > Kyle > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dee Ayy [mailto:dee....@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 11:05 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] IE can't download, FF can: SSL ? Need special headers? > > The following code has been working for about 6 years. The only change > I am aware of is that now it is being served from a server requiring SSL > to access it. > > header("Content-type: $type"); > header("Content-length: $size"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$name\""); echo > $data; > > It still works in FF, so I assume the variables are being filled in. > For example: > header("Content-type: application/pdf"); > header("Content-length: 75485"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"test.pdf\""); > > In DebugBar HTTP(S) after the GET request which had to be authorized by > htaccess it reports: > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:38:18 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora) > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 > Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=743ba4d8e056873c4da52b123df4b1ad; path=/ > Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT > Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, > pre-check=0 > Pragma: no-cache > Content-length: 7359 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.pdf" > Connection: close > Content-Type: application/pdf > > Should "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" be "HTTPS/1.1 200 OK"? If so, how can I get > that set? Is there some funky header I need? > > Oh, the IE 7 error is: > Internet Explorer cannot download my_php_file.php?a_name=a_value from > my.site.com. > > Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The > requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try > again later. > > FYI: If the user cannot choose a filename to save as, it gets saved as > "my_php_file.php" which needs to be renamed to extension ".pdf" to be > viewed in a PDF viewer. > So if you have any helpful headers to force the filename, I'd appreciate > that too. Apparently Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="test.pdf" doesn't work (on FF and maybe other browsers). > > There is an issue with Internet Explorer 6 > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=816037 that seems to relate, but this > is for IE 7, and I can't verify if it is also failing on IE 6. > But I found this (which didn't work for me) > http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-internetexplorer-gener > al/313324-downloading-ftp-files-ie7.html<http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-internetexplorer-gener%0Aal/313324-downloading-ftp-files-ie7.html> > > Regards. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I have had the same issue with IE. What I did was save the file to the hard disk and then attempt the download. That has worked well. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
