Re: Problems with Zip+IE6

It's kinda long, but this will probably save you some grief: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com On Tue, December 5, 2006 2:07 am, Javier Ruiz wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a problem with zip files and Internet Explorer 6. I try to send > to > the user a dinamically generated zip file writting the http headers > and > using file_put_contents for the zip content. It works fine when > downloading > the file with firefox, opera, etc... even it works well if I download > the > file with internet explorer and then open it with any zip tool. The > problem > comes when I try to directly open the file from the URL using IE6. > > I found this is a known bug of IE (several versions) in windows XP: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308090 > > Does anybody know any way to workaround this problem? I found a couple > workarounds in forums over there and I tried them, but unfortunately > they > didn't work: > 1 - To change the mimetype (when writting http headers) from > "application/zip" that I used before to "application/x-zip-compressed" > 2 - To not use MOD_DEFLATE in apache2 (I was not using it > really...) > > > > Any idea?? > > Thanks a lot! > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?