Re: DXF/PHP Problem

----- Original Message ----- From: <Sysadmin@saginawcontrol.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: [PHP] DXF/PHP Problem > Ok, I'm not sure if this is a PHP problem or Apache problem but I can't > find any information on it anywhere else and you guys appear to know > everything. Here it goes. I have a script that I am using on a site > that allows a person to type in a part number and it will automatically > redirect them to the corresponding file (DXF) if it exists. The > problem is, rather letting them download it, IE tries to open the file > as text. Do I need to put some sort of header in it to keep IE from > opening it? Please help as I am ripping out my hair. Thanks in > advance and I apologize if this is off-topic. > > Brian You guessed right about the header.. header("Content-type: application/x-octet-stream"); Then pass the file through stdout. The "accepted" way to do this is with fopen() and then fpassthru(), but I believe that is only becuase fopen() supports binary read/write. Other methods to read in and output the contents of the file will work just as well.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fpassthru.php HTH, Kevin