note 27809 added to function.header

From: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:38:20 +0000
Subject: note 27809 added to function.header
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If You want to download a file from the server, the best way which I have found is the following: list($adrs,$name)=explode("/",$file); header('Content-Type: ' . $mimetypes[substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1)]); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name"); header ("Cache-control: private"); $fp = fopen('../files/'.$file, 'r'); fpassthru($fp); Do not use "fclose($fp);", it will return You a string which will be writed to the end of the file and that can made some troubles if You are downloading for example a word doc. Anyway, the function "fpassthru($fp);" will close the connection, so there is no reason to use fclose(); -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27809 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27809 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27809

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