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> At 06:58 AM 10/11/05, Adam Witney wrote:
>> I have PDF files stored in a bytea field in the database and I want to all
>> the user to click a link on the web page and have the file automatically
>> opened in acrobat (or whatever they have set to read the pdf). It works for
>> most browsers except for in Internet Explorer on windows (surprise
>> surprise!). Here is my code
>>
>> header("Content-type: application/pdf");
>> header('Content-Disposition: attachment;
>> filename="'.$data['filename'].'"');
>
>
> Here's mine...
> if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) &&
> strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'MSIE'))
> header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
> else
> header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
> header('Content-Length: '.strlen($this->buffer));
> header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="'.$name.'"');
>
>
> But on a some systems (both Win98 & WinXP), user must save/open instead of
> open directly - haven't figured out why yet.
>From the link sent by Volkan, adding these header lines fixes the problem
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: private");
Thanks for the help guys
Adam
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