Re: Problems with Zip+IE6

damn! that's a pretty good article, thanks a lot. unfortunatelly, it's not mentioning about zip files concretely, I didn't find a solution for my problem with them. I tried playing a bit with the Content-type, but it seems that Internet Explorer doesn't really care about "Content-type"... it uses the extention of the file to determine the type (microsoft's way...) so it doesn't matter if I use "application/octet-stream" or even "application/force-download" or "application/makethisdownload-or-ikillyou" :-D as long as I name the file " whatever.zip", IE6 shows the "open with" dialog and if I use "open" with an application, it fails :( thanks again Richard for the answer and for the article :) anybody with a miracle for the ZIP+IE problem?? On 12/5/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

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?