Ave, I spent most of my afternoon going through everything in the computer, from DOS to the Temporary Files Folder, pertaining to what was happening, and I you're absolutely correct, because my findings also suggested me nothing else but that Microsoft was screwing it up. I think the solutions you have pointed me towards are probably the solutions for my problem. I maintain my Apache Web Server on my PowerMac G5 machine. I have access to the httpd.conf for my Apache Web Server. Do I need to add the <Files> directive in the httpd.conf or somewhere else? I'm going to look into the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] to help me solve my problem.. But in case you do know of any relevant place where I may need to look pertaining to my specific problem, I'd really appreciate if you could direct me to it. Thanks again, Rahul S. Johari On 12/3/04 1:01 PM, "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul S. Johari wrote: > href=\"imsafm2_download.php?F=imsafm/$showfilesuser/$myrow[filename]\"><img >> src=b_newtbl.png border=0></a> > > One thing you might want to try... > > I've noticed over the years that Microsoft will usually manage to screw up > if you've got a dynamic URL. I really don't understand (or care) why > Microsoft engineers are too stupid to handle dynamic content, but there it > is. > > So you just get rid of anything in the URL that lets Microsoft screw up. > > There are several articles/tutorials on the net how to use > $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] and embed the file you want in the URL. > > The goal here is to change the URL that looks like this: > imsafm2_download.php?F=imsafm/rahul/somefile.txt > > into a URL that looks like this: > imsafm2_download/F=imsafm/rahul/somefile.txt > > You'll also need to use .htaccess to force Apache to use PHP on > imsafm2_download (rename the file without the .php) > > <Files imsafm2_download> > ForceType application/x-httpd-php > </Files> > > The over-arching reason for doing all this, is to give Microsoft *NO* > opportunity to SCREW UP. > > If the browser can't tell that it's not a plain old bring static file, it > can't screw it up. > > You also need to do this for dynamic images, dynamid PDFs, FDFs, Ming > (Flash) files, and pretty much any other rich media content that you > generate dynamically. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
