I remember reading on this a long while back. Try searching the archives of this list. The solution pointed to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
If I recall correctly, it involved simply adding "%20" to the end of your filename string... Something like this: Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename%20"); Give it a try. I might be way off, but you've got nothing to lose. :) -- Aaron Gould Web Developer Parts Canada "Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > ok i know this has popped up a couple of times before but i'm still having > problems. What I need is the download popup to popup and ask the user if > they wish to save or open the file they want to download. If you click open > IE saves the file in your temp cache and then opens up the associated proggy > and for some bizare reason adds "[1]" at the end of the filename and cant > find the file in cache. At the moment i'm using the following: > > Header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); > Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > Header("File-Length: $fileSize"); > Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); > Header("Content-Description: File from DMS"); > fpassthru($fh); > > > > > -- > 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