note 63367 added to function.header

Referring to the infamous Microsoft Explorer bug, particularly when outputting PDF : The problem is this - Most well-behaved browsers require a mime-type before they attempt to display anything. If they don't receive a mime-type from the server, then they revert to text/plain. Not Microsoft Explorer. Microsoft Explorer attempts to ascertain what type of file it is recieving by looking in the file first. You can test this by renaming a graphic file so that it does not have a .extension (ie rename test.gif to be test), and upload it to your server. Look at it via a URL, and any compliant browser will render it as text. Not Microsoft Explorer, which renders the file as a graphic. Unfortunately, this behavior is not consistent. The really big problem comes with the Adobe postscript plugin. Most browsers will shut up and listen when given a mime type for PDF. Not Microsoft Explorer. It sees that the url generating the file contains a .php, and gets confused. I eventually discovered that the best way to stop this problem was to generate the pdf to a file, move it to a subdirectory under the htdocs, and then issue a redirect to it. Examples of this method can be seen in use at www.onvista.de, such as http://fonds.onvista.de/snapshot.html?ID_INSTRUMENT=6628444 Which launches a separate window, generates the pdf, and then redirects to it. Naughty, naughty Microsoft browser. No biscuit for you. ---- Server IP: 217.13.201.10 Probable Submitter: 80.135.36.46 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63367 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63367 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63367 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php