Re: file downloading problem

Maybe Content-Type would work better. Look at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17 and http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17. "Jerry" <bonnej@prairie.lakes.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.20.0010171333200.26910-100000@prairie.lakes.com... > I hear there are some pretty sharp people on this list that could probably > help me out, so here goes. > > I'm trying to download a file that resides outside the web > directory to a client. > > When the client initiates a download it incorrectly identifies the file by > the name of the php script that is serving the file, this happens mostly > on the macintosh, i.e. when someone trys to download say a mpg video, > netscape will ask to save the file as "download.php" instead of > "blah.mpg". I use this header to suggest a filename : > > Header("Content-Disposition: filename=$file_name"); > > From what I understand, Content-Disposition isnt technically part of the > http protocol, does that mean that some browsers like netscape might > ignore it? Do browsers grab the filename from the end of uri? if so is > there a way I can fake the browser out? any help would be greatly > appreciated, ive been banging my head against the wall for a while on > this one. > > Jerry Bonner > Systems Analyst / Web Development > [bonnej@prairie.lakes.com] > --------------------------------- > Prairie Lakes Internet > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >