Re: HTTP headers, IE and downloading

Hi! Andreas Magnusson wrote: > I'm writing a script to view/download an email-attachment. If the file > happens to be an MS Word document and the browser IE (only tried with > 6.0), then the download fails. > If I choose to download (Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="whatever.doc") then only a part of the file (2/3) is saved > to disk. Of course viewing the file doesn't work either. It doesn't > seem to matter what I set the Content-Type to since IE seems to > ignore that anyway, however I've tried application/msword, > application/octet-stream and some others. I've tried all the things > said in the comments to the header-function in the online-docs at > php.net. > I know my Content-Length header is correct and the whole procedure > works great with Netscape 7.0 and if the attachment is a zip-file or > a jpeg-image it also works in both IE and Netscape. Have a look at: http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Download And the first comment of: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-cache-limiter.php Perhaps you should not use ouput-compression, and look at the headers generated by PHP What headers are sent? Do you use sessions? you can see this using Mozilla + Live Headers, Ethereal, http://schroepl.net/cgi-bin/http_trace.pl ... Regards, Andreas