Re: choosing the name to save a file as in a script

> Hi everyone, > > I've seen something very interesting on some site that would allow me to use > PHP-authentification to allow download of certain files.... Here's what the > link on the site looks like: > > http://www.whatever.com/view.php3/filename.ext?id=17982 > > Now, the script that sends the file is view.php3. What this does is get a > file with id 17982, either by reading it from a database or something (not > important) and sends it back to the browser and the browser thinks it is > actually file "filename.ext"... > > What I don't get is how can you pass "/filename.ext?id=17982" as an > argument? I tried it and the web server will of course look for file > "filename.ext", but it doesn't exist since view.php3 is obviously not a > directory... With a slight bit more work, you can have this url: view.php3?filename=<blah, blah, blah> And I'M PRETTY SURE (I've done it before, but forget the details), you can supply a HTTP header in your reply that indicates the filename like you want it to. It's Content-Disposition or something like that. OK, to avoid sending you on a wild header chase, I tested it. Adding "Content-Disposition: attachment=filename.ext" to the response header did the trick. I was prompted to save the file with the proper name. *sigh*, you might want to look at this though: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q267/9/91.ASP - K