Re: sending PDF to the user (www)

Add the filename to the end of the URL that they are getting. It will look real weird, but will work for some browser versions. I think there may also be two different forms of Content-disposition: for IE versus Netscape. -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: George Pitcher <fmdev@yahoo.co.uk> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; <pdflib@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: sending PDF to the user (www) > Hi all, > > I am using Lasso to authenticate user access to PDF files with the actual > delivery being handled by PHP. > > I can download the PDF by clicking a 'submit' button. However, in IE or > Netscape, it puts it into the browser with the name of the php script as the > filename. I would like the filename to be the one the file lives with > normally. Can this be done? > > Also, I would like it to be downloaded to the user's computer without > opening in the browser. Any suggestions. > > My coding in php is: > > <?php > $fp1 = "D:\\Pdf\\" . $fp; > $len = filesize($fp1); > header("Content-type: application/pdf"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$fp1"); > header("Content-Length: $len"); > readfile($fp1); > ?> > > Any suggestions? > > George Pitcher > Edinburgh > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >