I've had luck making the url look something like... http://server/path/to/dl.php?filename=filename.tar
or http://server/path/to/dl.php/filename.tar (works with apache) The latter seems to work better for me. On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Francis wrote: > Ok I posted a mail a couple of days ago about downloading files within PHP. > Heres the code I'm using: > > Header("Content-Type: application/x-tar"); > Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > Header("File-Length: $fileSize"); > Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); > > Anyway the problem is, that if you use IE6 click on the download it pops the > box up, "do you want to save or open" it works ok if you click save put if > you try open it doesnt open the file properly it adds [1] or [2] etc at the > end of the filename. Now I know there was a bug with the "attachment" part > of the Content-Disposition in IE5 but this was fixed with SP1. Is there any > way of getting around this. > > > > -- > 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
