Re: Downloads, headers and binary data

"Juan Germano" <droctulft@yifan.net> wrote in message news:004b01c081f3$46be8160$ddf90dd1@juangerm... > Hi. I'm trying to write a script to download a mp3 file. I did this: > > $filesize=filesize($filename); > header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=".basename($filename)); > header("Content-type: application/octetstream"); > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > header("Pragma: no-cache"); > header("Expires: 0"); > header("Content-Length: $filesize"); > readfile($filename,$filesize); > > I began with the first two headers but the problem is that the script works > fine with > text files but I get shorter files than the originals with mp3s, so I added > the rest trying to solve the problem. > So I tryied > > $fp=fopen($filename,"r"); > fread($fp,filesize($filename)); > fclose($fp); Try this, only change your fread line like so: echo fread($fp,filesize($filename)); I have to do this to put out an image with a image/vnd.wap.wbmp header, and it works for me. -- Rick Hodger