An HTTP response can only do ONE of these two things:
output HTML
start a download
If you see sites such as SourceForge that *seem* to do this in one
page, and analyze their HTML and their headers, you will find that
they are using a META refresh tag or some JavaScript to cause the
original HTML to re-direct to another URL, which then does the
download.
So, really, you are visiting the HTML output page, and then in that
page, some browser-side hack is forcing the download.
I personally find this annoying rather than useful, frankly, but there
it is. It obviously works for SourceForge and they have a lot of
users, so I must be the exceptional surfer who is annoyed by this.
[Just gimme the download link -- don't make me surf to a page to get
to the page that gives me the page to get the download. Sheesh!]
On Tue, December 12, 2006 3:37 am, viraj wrote:
> hi all,
> i have a small script which shows some information inside a html table
> and then pushes a file to save on to users desktop.
>
> but with the following code it download the file and stay without
> outputting the html table to browser.
>
> i tried with out put buffering functions, but still no luck (it seems
> i'm not clear about those functions yet..). could somebody please help
> me on this?
>
> many thanks
>
>
> ~viraj
>
>
>
> <?php
>
> function my_callback($content) {
> header('Content-type: application/binary;
> charset=iso-8859-1');
> header("Expires: 0");
> header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate,
> post-check=0,pre-check=0");
> header("Pragma: public");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"Test.url\"");
> $content .= "[InternetShortcut]\r\n" .
> "URL=http://192.168.1.71/\r\n"; .
> "IDList=" .
> "IconFile=http://192.168.1.71/favicon.ico\r\n"; .
> "IconIndex=1\r\n" .
> "[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]\r\n" .
> "Prop3=19,2\r\n";
>
> return $content;
> }
>
>
> ob_start('my_callback');
> getBody();
> ob_end_flush();
>
> function getBody()
> {
> ?>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1" />
> </head>
> <body>
> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="780" align="center"
> border="1">
> <tbody>
> <tr>
> <td class="outerBorder" valign="top" width="780">Some
> information goes here..</td>
> </tr>
> </tbody>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
> <?php
> }
>
> ?>
>
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