Re: downloading xls files corrupts them

Am 2009-01-12 13:13:25, schrieb Chris Ditty: > I am using php to download xls files on my server. When I download them, excel is saying they > are corrupted. They are not corrupted on the server itself. These are simple xls spreadsheets with > no formatting in them. > > Here is the headers that I am using for the download. This is happening in both IE and > Firefox. > header("Pragma: public"); > header("Expires: 0"); > header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); > header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); > header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); > header("Content-Type: application/download"); Why do you do this three times? You need only: header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename=".basename("./bidDocs/".$myFile).";"); > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); Remove this line. > header("Content-Length: ".filesize("./bidDocs/".$myFile)); > readfile("./bidDocs/".$myFile); > > Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### <http://www.tamay-dogan.net/> <http://www.can4linux.org/> Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)