Re: Send binary files with gzip encoding disabled

strawks a écrit :

Hello, I'm trying to send a ZIP file generated on the fly in a temporary directory. The ZIP file is created successfully and I'm using the following code to send it to the client :

    $filesize=filesize($path);
    $mimetype='application/zip';

    // Make sure there's not anything else left
    ob_clean_all();

    // Start sending headers
    header("Pragma: public"); // required
    header("Expires: 0");
    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    header("Cache-Control: private",false); // required for certain browsers
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
    header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
    header("Content-Type: ".$mimetype);
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$name."\";" );
    header("Content-Length: ".$filesize);

    $fp=@fopen($path,"rb");     while(!@feof($fp))
    {
        set_time_limit(0);
        print @fread($fp, 8192);
    }
    @fclose($fp);

The ob_clean_all() function : function ob_clean_all () {

    $ob_active = ob_get_length () !== false;
    while($ob_active) {
        ob_end_clean();
        $ob_active = ob_get_length () !== false;
    }

    return true;

} The problem is that Apache process the output throught gzip and so drop the Content-Length header replacing it with a chunked transfer. This should work fine but Internet Explorer simply save the raw gzip compressed data instead of the ZIP archive. However this works fine with Firefox. gzip encoding is unecessary since I'm transfering a ZIP archive, so I think just disabling it should solve the problem, but I haven't found how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, I have about the same code except that I use "application/x-zip-archive" for the content type and it just works. There's no ob_* stuff in my code also. 'hope that helps you out... -- Emmanuel