nobody?
does any think this could be a bug or something?
i would like to know before submitting this as a bug.
At 19:18 15-7-2002 +0200, gilles wrote:
>hi,
>
>i've run in to a strange problem,
>
>i'm trying to output a pdf file from disk to the browser.
>
>this is fine under netscape but IE has problems.
>
>consider the following code:
>-------------------------------------------
><?
>error_reporting(E_ALL);
>
>session_start();
>if (!isset($_SESSION['download'])) {
> @$_SESSION['download'] = $_GET['download'];
>}
>
>if(isset($_GET["download"])){
> $file_name=$_SESSION['download'];
> header("Content-type:application/pdf");
> header("Content-Disposition: inline;filename=\"mypdf.pdf\"");
> header("Content-length:".(string)(filesize($file_name)));
> header("location: $file_name");
>exit;
>}
>?>
><form method=get>
><INPUT TYPE="submit" name=download value="mypdf.pdf">
></form>
>------------------------------------------
>
>the above code runs fine on NS and IE,
>IE immediately loads and opens the pdf file inline.
>
>but this code which only has the difference of using the POST method
>instead of the GET metod results in a "file is corrupt" message!
>
>------------------------------------------
><?
>error_reporting(E_ALL);
>
>session_start();
>if (!isset($_SESSION['download'])) {
> @$_SESSION['download'] = $_POST['download'];
>}
>
>if(isset($_POST["download"])){
> $file_name=$_SESSION['download'];
> header("Content-type:application/pdf");
> header("Content-Disposition: inline;filename=\"mypdf.pdf\"");
> header("Content-length:".(string)(filesize($file_name)));
> header("location: $file_name");
>exit;
>}
>?>
><form method=post>
><INPUT TYPE="submit" name=download value="mypdf.pdf">
></form>
>------------------------------------------
>
>
>can anyone explain to me why you can't use the POST method?
>is this a bug or is this as expected (i didn't).
>
>tnx,
>
>gilles
>
>i'm running php 4.2.1 on win2000 with IIS5
>
>
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