damn! that's a pretty good article, thanks a lot. unfortunatelly, it's not mentioning about zip files concretely, I didn't find a solution for my problem with them. I tried playing a bit with the Content-type, but it seems that Internet Explorer doesn't really care about "Content-type"... it uses the extention of the file to determine the type (microsoft's way...) so it doesn't matter if I use "application/octet-stream" or even "application/force-download" or "application/makethisdownload-or-ikillyou" :-D as long as I name the file " whatever.zip", IE6 shows the "open with" dialog and if I use "open" with an application, it fails :( thanks again Richard for the answer and for the article :) anybody with a miracle for the ZIP+IE problem?? On 12/5/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's kinda long, but this will probably save you some grief: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com On Tue, December 5, 2006 2:07 am, Javier Ruiz wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a problem with zip files and Internet Explorer 6. I try to send > to > the user a dinamically generated zip file writting the http headers > and > using file_put_contents for the zip content. It works fine when > downloading > the file with firefox, opera, etc... even it works well if I download > the > file with internet explorer and then open it with any zip tool. The > problem > comes when I try to directly open the file from the URL using IE6. > > I found this is a known bug of IE (several versions) in windows XP: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308090 > > Does anybody know any way to workaround this problem? I found a couple > workarounds in forums over there and I tried them, but unfortunately > they > didn't work: > 1 - To change the mimetype (when writting http headers) from > "application/zip" that I used before to "application/x-zip-compressed" > 2 - To not use MOD_DEFLATE in apache2 (I was not using it > really...) > > > > Any idea?? > > Thanks a lot! > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?
