Foring a file download *and* page reload

I've asked about this before but could not get a working solution. I have a database. Users put data in the DB :) I have a page with a list of accessible data "block". Each "block" has a button next to it. When a user click a button what I would like is: - I extract the data block from the DB - I send the data to the browser as a file download so the user can save the data block to disk. (i.e. a save-file-as dialog comes up) - I mark the data block as inaccessible - I reload the page and present a new list. The data block the user as just selected is no longer in the list. I have figure out how to force a file download using: header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=aFile"); header("Content-type: application"); The problem I have is that I need a way of send the user back to list page so I can regenerate a new listing. I can't use header("Location") because I've already started an output stream (the download). Some suggested using this header: header("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"-Boundary-12399\""); But I could quite get it to work. The example code I have been trying to get to work make Netscape open a save-as dialog three times and on IE 6 just prints everything in the browser window. This is the code: (suggested by Marek Kilimajer) <? header("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"-Boundary-12399\""); print "---Boundary-12399\r\n"; print "Content-Type: text/html\r\n"; print "\r\n"; //HTML code goes here print "\n"; print "---Boundary-12399\r\n"; print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n"; print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.tar.gz\r\n\r\n"; readfile("./foo.tar.gz"); print "---Boundary-12399--\r\n"; print "\r\n"; ?> I'm sure someone has done this before :) What is the "correct" way to achieve this effect? Is multipart content-type the way to go? Thanks, Jean-Christian Imbeault