On Thu, March 8, 2007 4:57 am, Ross wrote:
>
> Can someone explain to me why this used to work but then stopped
>
> header("Content-length: $size");
> header("Content-type: $type");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
>
> and this now works
>
> header("Content-length: ".$size);
> header("Content-type: ".$type);
> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$name.'"');
> echo $content;
>
>
> Any suggestions?
It never worked properly the first time around, but you never noticed
the lack of quotes around "$name" because none of your filenames had
spaces or other "interesting" characters in them.
It only "breaks" when your $name has something other than a printable
character.
Actually, Content-Disposition also only works on newer browsers, but
that's another story...
If you want to force a download, the only correct type is
application/octet-stream.
If you want EVERY browser ever made to do the right thing for that
"Save As..." popup, then Content-Disposition is not the way to go, as
it won't work on legacy [*] browsers.
I ranted about this a big long time ago here:
http://richardlynch.blogspot.com
* There may not BE any real users of said legacy browsers any more,
mind you, but there it is. I got bit hard by this Content-disposition
change and will never use it, no matter what decade we are in.
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