Are you using Internet Explorer? Then it's a feature of IE--it ignores
the disposition headers sent by your server because its registry tells
it that PDF files must be viewed inline. There's a way around it,
although it's a bit kludgy--I wrote a small article about it that you
can find here (it's in PDF format, as well):
http://www.phparch.com/issuedata/2002/december/sample.php
Essentially, you're telling IE to download a file with the extension
.pdf (not the space) so that it can't match the MIME type anymore and
will follow your suggestion of downloading the file instead of
displaying it inline.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Marco
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i was reading about php.net looking for a way to force a download of a txt file,
rather than the browser displaying the file.
i ran into header() that seems to be able to accomplish it... but seeing as i'm very
much a newbie at php, i can't seem to make this work
if the file i want to download is
nfo/60/ind.txt
how would i impliment this:
?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header(Content-type: application/pdf);
// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=downloaded.pdf);
// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?
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