> -----Original Message----- > From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HTTP headers > > > Hi all, > > I want to print a zip file to the browser but I want to make > the browser > think that it gets the zip file directly, not through a CGI script. > > Why? > Because when clicking on a link for downloading a zip file > directly, the > download managers are triggered, and the page visitors can > download the zip > file using a download manager. > > If I print the zip file to the browser, it opens the default Internet > Explorer window for downloading the file and the download > managers are not > triggered at all. > > I've tried to find what headers appear when opening a zip > file in Internet > Explorer directly. > > I found: > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: [the number of bytes] > Connection: close > Content-type: application/zip > > If I use these headers, the zip file still opens the default > download window > of Internet Explorer. > > I've tried adding the following header line, with the same results: > Content-disposition: attachment; filename=filename.zip > > Please tell me which header should I print to make Internet > Explorer, and > the download managers think that it is a real zip file, and > not one served > by a CGI script. > > Thank you very much!
I think the problem is that IE "helps" you by examining the trailing portion of the URL to determine the file type. Try adding ?.zip to your download URL. Instead of //myserver/cgi-bin/download.cgi Use this instead: //myserver/cgi-bin/download.cgi?.zip (If you already have a query string, then just add a dummy arg to the end, so that the URI ends with .zip). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
