Ok.... I think it's working now. When I click the link going directly to the PHP script, it's displaying the PDF file in the browser appropriately. Exactly what I want.
Now.... some of these PDF docs are so big, they could take a while to show up if a client is on a slow connection. So now I want to make a 'middle' page that says something like 'dowloading... please be patient' while the PDF is downloading. So here's what I've done. The file getpdf1.php is the following: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=getapdf2.php"> Please be patient... downloading getpdf2.php is: Header("Content-type: application/pdf"); $file = fopen("../pdfs/whatever.pdf",rb); fpassthru($file); fclose($file); (Thanks to James for this little bit of code) Now... if I link directly to getpdf2.php, it works great. However if I link to getpdf1.php, which redirects to getpdf2.php, IE show the download file dialog. This is NOT what I want, why is this? Weird. Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php