Re: using header() to server tiff

At 11:57 08.05.2003, hboyce@eab.co.uk said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I'm trying to write an image server script to serve tif/tiff files so that >they will open in a browser using an appropriate plug-in. If I just do >an href to the file they open fine, however for security reasons we >want to keep the files outside the document root. The result is a >screen of binary displayed in ascii characters. The code I am using >is: > ><?php > $file = "test.tif"; > header("Cache-control: private"); > header ("Content-Type: image/tiff"); > header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file)); > header ("Content-transfer-encoding: binary"); > header ("Content-Disposition: inline; filename = \"$file\""); > $fp = fopen($file, 'rb'); > fpassthru($fp); > >Has anyone had to do this before? Any help gratefully appreciated. --------------------[snip]-------------------- This should work as expected, as far as I can see. I suspect that some data has already been sent before your binary file, maybe some space after a closing ?> tag, so PHP transmits the default text/html content header. If you're on X, you can inspect the effective server output with lynx: lynx --mime_header http://myhost/myscript?somemore | less -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/