[PHP] Re: IE download problem

[pete M]

thsi si a nighmare area..... and loast days on same problem

This works for me.. hope it does for you

$file = $_GET['file'];
$path = '/www/cgi-bin/docu/personal/'.$file;
        //force download dialog
    header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n");
    header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"\n");
    header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n");
    header("Content-length: " . filesize($path) . "\n");
        
    //send file contents
    $fp=fopen($path, "r");
    fpassthru($fp);


Luis Lebron wrote:
I am working on a script to force downloading a file. The script works fine
with NS (4.8 and 7) but does not work correctly with IE 6.0
I have looked at examples on php.net and have googled for a solution, but
still can't find a solution. I think IE wants to download the script instead
of the file.
Here's what the code I'm working on looks like:

<?php 
$sender=$_GET["sender"];
$filename=$_GET["filename"];

//Data validation goes here

$filePath="../users/".$sender."/".$filename;
if(file_exists($filePath))
{
  Header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filePath));
  Header("Content-type: application/download");
  Header("Content-Disposition-type: attachment");
  Header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$filename."\"\n");
  Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
  $fp = fopen($filePath,"rb");
  fpassthru($fp);
} 
?>

The funny thing is that I have a similar script that I use to download an
sql file and it works correctly.
Luis R. Lebron
Sigmatech, Inc
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