RE: [PHP] Annoying brackets in IE temporary filenames - looking f or a magicfix...

Thanks again everyone for your feedback... I re-wrote everyhting to dump to actual files, and all seems to be working well. Also will be a little bit nicer on the database... Thanks again! Regards, Geoff Varosky -----Original Message----- From: Travis Low [mailto:travis@dawnstar.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:51 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Annoying brackets in IE temporary filenames - looking for a magicfix... Matt Matijevich wrote: > [snip] > Is anyone aware of a way via headers, or just plain voodoo, that will > make a temporary file that IE uses not use the square brackets? i.e. > foo[1].xls > [/snip] > > Are you you trying to tell IE what the name of the file is right now > with headers? I noticed when I did this with https ie ignored whatever > name I gave that file. > > I was having the same kind of problem with IE. > > Try to actually create the file on the website somewhere, some > directory within the website directories, then do a redirect to that > file. Let me know if you need a better explanation. I had the EXACT same problem. I set the Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers and god knows what else. Everything I tried was duly ignored by IE. So listen to Matt -- write the file out to the server somewhere, then use a redirect. If the file contains secure information, then you can add an intermediate step of creating a small popup window that contains the link. Then, when the popup closes, set the location.href of the opening window to a PHP file that deletes the file you just created. Not airtight security, but better than nothing. cheers, Travis -- Travis Low <mailto:travis@dawnstar.com> <http://www.dawnstar.com> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php