Re: force to download file

IE likes excel files, and wants to open them for you since it is such a "helpful" application... If you want to force the download you need to lie to the browser and claim you are passing a file that it won't know what to do with. You can try an exe header, but that will likely prompt security warnings that will bug your users. -- Stephen Johnson c | eh The Lone Coder http://www.thelonecoder.com continuing the struggle against bad code http://www.thumbnailresume.com -- > From: Hiep Nguyen <hnguyen@jadesterling.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:13:45 -0500 > To: <php-db@lists.php.net> > Subject: [PHP-DB] force to download file > > hi all, > > i have this on top of my php page: > > header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); > header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=excelfile.xls"); > > but it is not prompt to save the file instead it opens right in IE. > > my question is how do i force the browser prompts to save the file? > > thanks