Re: content disposition and internet exploder

LOL Of course it worked. Open Source outwits MS yet again. Fred Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0112021408450.1743-100000@rasmus.php.net... > You could just trick it with a URL like: > > http://your.domain.com/script.php/query.csv > > IE will think your script is called query.csv while Apache is smart enough > to run script.php. > > -Rasmus > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Fred wrote: > > > I am attempting to allow users to download csv files that are created > > dynamically from a database. In order to do so I use: > > > > header( "Content-Disposition: attachment, filename=query.csv"); > > > > This works fine in NS, but not in IE, as it always attempts to save the file > > using the script name instead of the filename in the header. I have read > > numerous posts and articles on MS site as well as this list about bugs in MS > > 4.01 5.0 and 5.5, but each article claims that the problem is fixed with SP2 > > etc. I have installed each of the service packs and have not been able to > > get this to work correclty on any of them. > > > > Has anyone had success in getting IE to use the correct filename when > > downloading dynamically generated files? > > > > Fred > > > > > > > > >