Hello,
if you use:
header("Content-Type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"somefile.zip\"");
That works for me with IE 6/7 and other browsers.
- Frank
> 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?
> >
> >
>
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