Are you using MSIE?
what file extension are you testing with?
i was having similar problems using this technique
with PDF files. only with MSIE, sometimes it would
print text crap to the screen and sometimes it
would prompt for download.
MSIE is notorious for disregarding headers and
trying to handle files off of their extensions.
Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> It does not work. What it does is to echo the thing to the screen.
>
> How can I force the browser to download it with its original file name?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "PHP-GENERAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] how to send a file to the user's browser?
>
>
>
> A couple more headers than absolutely necessary, but this should work:
>
> <?php
> // open file and send to user
> if($fp = fopen($downloadfile, "r")){
> // output headers
> $downloadsize = filesize($downloadfile);
> header ( "Expires: Mon, 1 Apr 1974 05:00:00 GMT" );
> header ( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s T") );
> header ( "Pragma: no-cache" );
> header ( "Content-type: application/octet-stream; name=$downloadfile" );
> header ( "Content-length: $downloadsize" );
> header ( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$downloadfile" );
> // read out file
> fpassthru($fp);
> fclose($fp);
> } else {
> // can't open file
> }
> ?>
>
>
> mh.
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've got a script that generates a txt file, compresses it into a Zip file
>>
> and it all happens on a directory that is out of apache's web site.
>
>>This script generates the file based on MySQL server information and I
>>
> have it then sent to the user's e-mail address. What I would like to do is
> to make the PHP script "throw" the file to the user's browser so that it
> would download it automatically. This file is created on a directory that is
> not the same as the web server where the pages and php scripts are located.
>
>>Anyone could help me with that?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
>>Linux User #207984
>>
>>
>>
>
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