Re: Correct headers for I.E. to open PDF?

* Thus wrote Paul Danko: > > What should the headers be for a client to download a PDF document and > have it open using adobe i.e. pluggin?? > > Here is code I am using, it works on some versions of I.E., but not all: > > > $pdfdoc = $__BASE_PDF_BUILD_DIRECTORY.$_GET['FID']; > > $filesize = filesize($pdfdoc); > header("Pragma: "); > header("Expires: 0"); > header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0,pre-check=0"); > header("Content-type: application/pdf"); This can be difiult to control sometimes. You could send a header like so: header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); Will generally do the trick. There are times when i've seen IE behave in very wierd, no matter the content-type, for example, accessing a url like: http://domain.com/a/file.php?param=1&bar=.jpg IE may attempt to display the thing in the browser because it saw the .jpg extension, even though I sent a headers that should have prompted a download. IE has gotten better but it still all depends on how the person has their computer set up to handle content types (IE tries to be too smart sometimes.) Curt -- The above comments may offend you. flame at will.