note 46615 added to function.header

To Jeremy: The reason it was downloading was because you used header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); This is the generic "download and save me" content-type, and "Content-Disposition: attachment" is specifically intended to pop up a save as box. I'm not sure how your hacks got it to ignore that, but all you had to do was use text/plain or text/html and inline instead. Please avoid adding bad hacks to work around your misunderstanding of the relevant rfcs to the php manual. A sane impl of your script: <?php $SRC_FILE = "/path/outside/web/server/test.txt"; $filename = basename($SRC_FILE); header("Content-Type: text/plain"); header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filename"); @readfile($SRC_FILE); ?> There are additional considerations, like IE tending to ignore content-type and using the request uri for the filename. Trust the webserver to either add the content-length or ignore it, unless you absolutely have to have pipelining for your pages. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+46615 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes Reason: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes&reason=bad+code Reason: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes&reason=spam Reason: useless example -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes&reason=useless+example Reason: contains commercial links -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes&reason=contains+commercial+links Reason: useless note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46615&report=yes&reason=useless+note Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+46615&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php