Re: Discarded extension on file download

This don't work for me :( Extension .gz is still throwed away. Tom Danny Shepherd wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had this problem and, after hours of hair pulling, found that it > seems to work best if you send > the words Content-Type and Content-Disposition in **lower case**. Not sure > why it has to be like that but it was the only way I found. > > HTH, > > Danny. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tomas Mikulecky" <tm@caldera.fr> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:40 AM > Subject: [PHP] Discarded extension on file download > > > Hi > > > > I am trying to offer downloading files from a web server, using PHP. > > > > The files are gzipped text and have all .txt.gz extensions. Now while on > > Windows systems both IE and Netscape offers to download it under the > > full name (althought IE adds [some_number] to the base of the file > > name), under Unix or Linux systems (tested with netscape 4.7) the '.gz' > > part is discarded from the file name and the file is saved with .txt > > only. Downloaded file is still gzipped. > > > > The part of script serving the files is as follows: > > > > header("Content-type: application/octet-stream"); > > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$my_filename"); > > echo($file_body); > > > > What am-I doing wrong? Thanks in advance > > > > Tom > >