RE: [PHP] Re: IE download problem

Could the problem be the associations stored in the windows system registry? I've had problems trying to download files whose name ends in a suffix that is registered as being associated with a given program (i.e. .txt with notepad, .doc with word). I believe that IE tries to open the file in the registered application and Netscape doesn't always do that (could be wrong here, but that's how it seemed to me). Warren -----Original Message----- From: Luis Lebron [mailto:llebron@sigmatech.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:54 AM To: 'pete M'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: IE download problem I tried your code. I'm still getting the same errors. thanks, Luis -----Original Message----- From: pete M [mailto:pmorgan@ukds.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:52 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: IE download problem thsi si a nighmare area..... and loast days on same problem This works for me.. hope it does for you $file = $_GET['file']; $path = '/www/cgi-bin/docu/personal/'.$file; //force download dialog header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n"); header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"\n"); header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n"); header("Content-length: " . filesize($path) . "\n"); //send file contents $fp=fopen($path, "r"); fpassthru($fp); Luis Lebron wrote: > I am working on a script to force downloading a file. The script works fine > with NS (4.8 and 7) but does not work correctly with IE 6.0 > I have looked at examples on php.net and have googled for a solution, but > still can't find a solution. I think IE wants to download the script instead > of the file. > > Here's what the code I'm working on looks like: > > <?php > $sender=$_GET["sender"]; > $filename=$_GET["filename"]; > > //Data validation goes here > > $filePath="../users/".$sender."/".$filename; > if(file_exists($filePath)) > { > Header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filePath)); > Header("Content-type: application/download"); > Header("Content-Disposition-type: attachment"); > Header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$filename."\"\n"); > Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > $fp = fopen($filePath,"rb"); > fpassthru($fp); > } > ?> > > > The funny thing is that I have a similar script that I use to download an > sql file and it works correctly. > > > Luis R. Lebron > Sigmatech, Inc > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php