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 :-) ```````````````````````````````````` <FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$"> ForceType application/octet-stream Header set Content-Disposition attachment </FilesMatch> ``````````````````````````````````````````` --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx