Re: MSIE problem with binary file download over SSL

If your ISP will allow you to set it up in .htaccess file, you can set it there, all your ISP can set it for your virtual host only Rich Choy wrote:

I'd like to try that, but my website is being hosted on someone else's server. I am not allowed to play around with /usr/local/lib/php.ini. Is there any way to manipulate the behavior of PHP so it uses a copy of php.ini that resides in my home directory instead? BTW I have really had it with IE. "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote in message news:000401c2fd83$3dba5540$7c02a8c0@coconut...

Have you tried setting it in php.ini? ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/

-----Original Message----- From: Rich Choy [mailto:versace_74@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:15 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] MSIE problem with binary file download over SSL John, Yep, I'm using sessions. I've tried the following for session_cache_limiter(): empty "none" "private" "private-no-expire" "public" None of them work. I am declaring session_cache_limiter() before session_start() in my script. Any ideas? -Rich "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote in message news:002501c2fd72$0db8f740$7c02a8c0@coconut...

Are you using sessions? There is a "feature" in IE that'll mess up downloads over SSL when the session sends it's session.cache_limiter value. If it's set to "nocache" then the download does not work.

Setting

it to "none" or empty will allow you to do the file download. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your

copy

today. http://www.phparch.com/

-----Original Message----- From: Rich Choy [mailto:versace_74@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:47 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] MSIE problem with binary file download over SSL Hi, I have a script that retrieves binary blob data from a database

and

sends

it to the client browser via SSL. It works like a charm for all

browsers

except for MSIE. I can assure you that the problem has nothing to do with

the

way

I've set up my headers; after a bit of investigation I've figured

out

that

MSIE has a problem with my script when it sends data over SSL. I

have

tested the script with MSIE over a regular port 80 connection and the

download

script works just fine. I am running Apache 1.3.6 + OpenSSL 0.9.6g + PHP 4.1.2. Does

anyone

know a

workaround to this problem? I have looked all over the web to no

avail.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance, Rich Here's the download script: [begin php] <? include("_srs/res_common_sdx_admin.inc"); include("_srs/res_auth_admin.inc"); $id = $_GET['id']; if ($id) { // if record id was specified

       @include("res_db.inc");
       // connect to database

       $db_q['lit'] = "select * from sdx_literature where id =
         

$id";

       $db_r['lit'] = mysql_query($db_q['lit']);

       if (mysql_num_rows($db_r['lit'])==1) {
       // if record exists

           $lit = mysql_fetch_array($db_r['lit']);
           // fetch literature record

           $file_description = $lit['description'];
           $file_name = $lit['filename'];
           $file_size = $lit['byte_size'];
           $mime_type = $lit['mime_type'];
           $binary_data = $lit['binary_data'];

           if (preg_match('/MSIE 5.5/', $_ENV['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])
         

||

preg_match('/MSIE 6.0/', $_ENV['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {

               header("Content-Disposition:
         

filename=$file_name");

               header("Content-Type: application/zip");
               // headers for MSIE

           } else {

               header("Content-Disposition: attachment;

filename=$file_name");

               header("Content-Type: $mime_type");
               // headers for WC3-compliant clients

           }

           header("Content-Length:$file_size");
           header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
           header("Content-Description: $file_description");
           // common headers

           echo $binary_data;
           // send binary data to client

       } else {
       // if record does not exist

           $_SESSION['msg'] = "Invalid literature record ID.";
           // error message

       }

} else { // if record id was not specified

       $_SESSION['msg'] = "The script you are trying to access
         

requires a

valid literature record ID.";

       // error message

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