Re: serving up blobs for download

Hot diggity damn! That works EXACTLY like I wanted, and for both browsers too. Thanks a million. As you guessed it was just a function of adding some additional headers, and also I wasnt using the "attachment" keyword in the disposition header. For the sake of completeness to readers, here is the important part of the example for initiating one-click downloads: header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Length: $filesize")); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); I'll have to remember to check weberdev next time :-) Thanks again, Rob Boaz Yahav wrote: > > Try looking at this : > > How to let a user download a picture by clicking on it instead of needing to > right click and Save-As. > > http://www.weberdev.com/index.php3?GoTo=get_example.php3?count=1562 > > You can use the general idea to do what you want. IMHO you are simply > missing > some headers IE expects cause this works great for me with both IE and NN. > > Sincerely > > berber > > Visit http://www.weberdev.com Today!!! > To see where PHP might take you tomorrow. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Montgomery [mailto:Robert.L.Montgomery@Home.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:37 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] serving up blobs for download > > > > > > This isnt exactly a PHP question, but... > > > > I want users to be able to download (not view with a viewer) > > pdf files which I have stored as blobs in MySQL, so the php > > script reads the blob into a variable, then does this: > > > > header("content-type: application/octet-stream"); > > header("content-disposition: filename=$filename"); > > echo $blob; > > > > With Netscape, this works great, the file save box opens and > > the filename to save as defaults to my variable $filename. > > > > The problem is that IE thinks it should be able to find a > > program to "view" the content-type of application/octet-stream. > > Netscape defaults to downloading unknown types, IE just gets > > confused. > > > > Does anyone know how to handle that problem? Is there some > > other content-type which is specifically used for downloading? > > > > Thanks, > > Rob > >