Re: Send out correct headers for word document

Isn't it more like header("Content-type: application/ms-word"); George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrey Hristov" <ahristov@icygen.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Send out correct headers for word document > I'm not sure but I think that it is: > Header("application/ms-word"); > > -- > Andrey Hristov > Web Developer > IcyGEN Corporation > BALANCED SOLUTIONS > http://www.icygen.com > > On Wednesday 10 October 2001 15:36, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a directory above my web root containing a load of word documents. I > > want to be able to send them to the client without exposing the directory > > to the user. > > > > I have been trying to use readfile. It works in as much as the correct file > > is being sent. Unfortunalty it is coming out as unformatted rubbish > > because, presumably the headers have not been set to a word document so IE > > is interpretting it as straight text. How do I set the headers to a word > > document type so that the Document is either downloaded or viewed within > > the page? > > > > Cheers > > > > Nic > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com