Re: [SOLVED] .htaccess force download not working

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Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 15.05.09 12:21, J. Bakshi wrote:
>   
>> I like to force download the pdf and mp3 files from a site. To achieve
>> this I have added the line in .htaccess
>>
>> AddType application/octet-stream .pdf
>> AddType application/octet-stream .mp3
>>
>> But it is not working with IE7, opera-9 but sometime firefox honor the
>> setting.
>> How can I make all browser to honor the setting through .htaccess setting ?
>>     
>
> You can not. It's up to the browser what does it do with content it fetched.
> Apparently IE7 does file type autodetection (IE is known to do that) and
> does whatever it wants.
>
> You could however try "Content-Disposition: attachment" header to hint the
> browser how the file should be handled.
>
>   

Thanks for your hint. The following config solved my problem :-)

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<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
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