[PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
I have a page where the user clicks a link to download a file, but the
file is out side of the root DIR.
passing certain variables in the link, (type, file_name) I call the
correct file...
However, it's stopped working?
My code below shows how I select the correct mime info to pass to the
header.. but I keep getting promted to download an HTML file all the
time...
if ($type == 'pdf') {$mimeinfo = application/pdf;} else
if ($type == 'doc') {$mimeinfo = application/msword;} else
if ($type == 'exe') {$mimeinfo = application/octet-stream;} else
if ($type == 'ppt') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-powerpoint;}
else
if ($type == 'xls') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-excel;} else
if ($type == 'xml') {$mimeinfo = text/xml;} else
if ($type == 'zip') {$mimeinfo = application/zip;}
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file);
header(Content-Length: . filesize($path));
header(Content-Type: $mimeinfo);
readfile($path);
My problem page is:
http://www.risk.sungard.com/download/?id=12617
click in the link 'Settlements ' and you'll see what I mean, it says
it's a pdf, but when you have to specify the download location, it saves
simply the html page?
can anyone spot my probably stupid error?
Tris...
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Re: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
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I have a page where the user clicks a link to download a file, but the
file is out side of the root DIR.
passing certain variables in the link, (type, file_name) I call the
correct file...
However, it's stopped working?
My code below shows how I select the correct mime info to pass to the
header.. but I keep getting promted to download an HTML file all the
time...
if ($type == 'pdf') {$mimeinfo = application/pdf;} else
if ($type == 'doc') {$mimeinfo = application/msword;} else
if ($type == 'exe') {$mimeinfo = application/octet-stream;} else
if ($type == 'ppt') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-powerpoint;}
else
if ($type == 'xls') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-excel;} else
if ($type == 'xml') {$mimeinfo = text/xml;} else
if ($type == 'zip') {$mimeinfo = application/zip;}
Don't know if this is the problem, but I would code this differently...
if ($type == 'pdf') {
$mimeinfo = application/pdf;
} elseif ($type == 'doc') {
$mimeinfo = application/msword;
} elseif ($type == 'exe') {
$mimeinfo = application/octet-stream;
} elseif ($type == 'ppt') {
$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-powerpoint;
} elseif ($type == 'xls') {
$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-excel;
} elseif ($type == 'xml') {
$mimeinfo = text/xml;
} elseif ($type == 'zip') {
$mimeinfo = application/zip;
}
But that's only if I had to use if/elsepersonally, I'd put all that
in a switch statement.
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file);
header(Content-Length: . filesize($path));
header(Content-Type: $mimeinfo);
And here, again, don't know if it's the problem, but...I'd move the
variable outside of the quotes
header(Content-Type: . $mimeinfo);
Just personal preference I guessYRMV.
readfile($path);
My problem page is:
http://www.risk.sungard.com/download/?id=12617
click in the link 'Settlements ' and you'll see what I mean, it says
it's a pdf, but when you have to specify the download location, it saves
simply the html page?
can anyone spot my probably stupid error?
Tris...
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RE: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
Look's correct... you could consider adding
Header(Content-transfer-encoding: binary);
But I highly doubt that would fix things. It would help much more if you
pasted the output by the server...
The link you pasted us is not sending any of the headers you set. Maybe you
already expired this url... but that surely won't help us in debugging!
These are the headers returned by your script...
200 OK
Cache-Control: private, no-cache
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:05:43 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_jk/1.2.0
mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.2 PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634
mod_ssl/2.8.15 OpenSSL/0.9.6bContent-Type: text/html
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Client-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:05:49 GMT
Client-Peer: 69.57.134.79:80
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=ffa3f76470f259ca96fb630dbbc1307d; path=/
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3
The content returned by your script is HTML not PDF!
It start's off with...
HTML
HEAD
TITLESunGard Trading and Risk Systems - Download page/TITLE
Here is the example output of a working binary download that we use. See the
difference.
HEAD http://localhost/dl.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:58:03 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=app.exe
Content-transfer-encoding: binary
Content-length: 208670
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
There is clearly something else broken with your script and it's not in the
part of code you sent us. Not only are the headers not what you set, the
file isn't what your passing. Hope this helps.
Also, stylistically I would use a switch(..) statement. It lends itself
perfectly for the kind of thing you're trying to do...
switch($type)
{
case 'pdf': $mimeinfo = application/pdf; break;
case 'doc': $mimeinfo = application/msword; break;
default:$mimeinfo = application/octet-stream;
}
Regards,
Erik Osterman
http://osterman.com/
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Subject: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
I have a page where the user clicks a link to download a file, but the
file is out side of the root DIR.
passing certain variables in the link, (type, file_name) I call the
correct file...
However, it's stopped working?
My code below shows how I select the correct mime info to pass to the
header.. but I keep getting promted to download an HTML file all the
time...
if ($type == 'pdf') {$mimeinfo = application/pdf;} else
if ($type == 'doc') {$mimeinfo = application/msword;} else
if ($type == 'exe') {$mimeinfo = application/octet-stream;} else
if ($type == 'ppt') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-powerpoint;}
else
if ($type == 'xls') {$mimeinfo = application/vnd.ms-excel;} else
if ($type == 'xml') {$mimeinfo = text/xml;} else
if ($type == 'zip') {$mimeinfo = application/zip;}
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file);
header(Content-Length: . filesize($path));
header(Content-Type: $mimeinfo);
readfile($path);
My problem page is:
http://www.risk.sungard.com/download/?id=12617
click in the link 'Settlements ' and you'll see what I mean, it says
it's a pdf, but when you have to specify the download location, it saves
simply the html page?
can anyone spot my probably stupid error?
Tris...
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RE: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
--- Erik Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look's correct... you could consider adding Header(Content-transfer-encoding: binary); Because Content-transfer-encoding is not a valid HTTP header, this will have no effect. Content-Encoding and Transfer-Encoding are valid headers, but binary is not a valid value for either of those. See RFC 2616 section 19.4.5 for more information. Hope that helps. Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...?
Didn't know that it's RFC 1521 specific header and not valid in HTTP. =) Thanks, Erik Osterman http://osterman.com/ -Original Message- From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:21 AM To: Erik Osterman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Passing header info for use in downloading files...? --- Erik Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look's correct... you could consider adding Header(Content-transfer-encoding: binary); Because Content-transfer-encoding is not a valid HTTP header, this will have no effect. Content-Encoding and Transfer-Encoding are valid headers, but binary is not a valid value for either of those. See RFC 2616 section 19.4.5 for more information. Hope that helps. Chris = My Blog http://shiflett.org/ HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp -- 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
