I was working on a script that was supposed to generate PDF files on
the fly and ran into the same problem as you described. MS IE has
always been and will always be (?) a P.I.T.A. when it comes to
following standards (I am not really sure if the header application/x-
octet-steam is a standrad in order to force a download). I came up
with this little helper:
<?php
$filename = "example.pdf";
$len = filesize ($filename );
if ( ( preg_match('|MSIE ([0-9.]+)|', $agent, $version ) ) ||
( preg_match( '|Internet Explorer/([0-9.]+)|', $agent, $version ) ) )
{
header( 'Content-Type: application/x-msdownload' );
header( 'Content-Length: ' . $len );
if ( $version == '5.5' )
{
header( 'Content-Disposition: filename="' . $filename . '"' );
} else {
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename .
'"' );
}
} else {
header( 'Content-Type: application/pdf' );
header( 'Content-Length: ' . $len );
header( 'Content-disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename );
}
echo file_get_contents($filename);
?>
All browsers I have tested with do show the download frame (Opera,
Safari, IE, Firefox, Mozilla browsers). But, as Richard already
mentioned, I had to "fake" the download URL, like "http://
www.site.com/downloads/example.pdf". In the folder "downloads" I put
a .htaccess file with the line "ErrorDocument 404 /link/to/my/php/
script.php".
/frank
14 jun 2006 kl. 02.19 skrev Peter Lauri:
I will try that after golf...
-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael [mailto:rsalazarm@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:28 AM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Setting headers for file download
I use something like this...
$file_len = filesize($file_name);
$file_ts = filemtime($file_name);
header('Content-Type: application/x-octet-stream'); // none known
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-
check=0');
header('Last-Modified: '. gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', $file_ts) .'
GMT');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.
basename($file_name) .'"');
header("Content-Length: $file_len");
readfile($file_name);
Peter Lauri wrote:
Best group member,
This is how I try to push files to download using headers:
header("Content-type: $file_type");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
print $file;
It works fine in FireFox, but not that good in IE. I have been
googled to
find the fix for IE, but I can not find it. Anyone with experience of
this?
Best regards,
Peter Lauri
--
Atentamente / Sincerely,
J. Rafael Salazar Magaña
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