File and HTML document from one script

From: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 08:14:44 +0000
Subject: File and HTML document from one script
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Hello, I´m new to this list. Hello all! I am just writing a PHP4 script forup and downloading files. Now I am encountering the following problem: I want to download a file with IE5 and NN4.72 under Windows 98. Simultanously I want to make appear the "Save as" window and an HTML page in the original browser window. The name of the file to save should be set to be the original file name. I have coded the following: <?php header("content-type: application/octet-stream"); readfile("/bin/pwd"); header("something"); ?> HTML code I guess I have to close the document anyhow before sending the second header, but document.close() with JavaScript doesn´t prevent an error message that the second "header" line be erroneous because there have been data in the document before. Then the "Save as" windows takes as default file name the name of the PHP script, and even when is have changed the file type mask to *.* "pwd" gets saved as "pwd..php3". At last, a bit off-topic: Although I sent "application/octet-stream" as content type the file content appears in the IE5(!) browser windows when I want to download a text or HTML file. Can I change this behaviour? Dietmar Rahlfs

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