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[DeWitt, Michael]

Chris/Jerry,

Thank you both for your suggestions.  Using headers is definitely the way to
go.  After some playing around and reading up on compatibility issues, here
is what I am working with so far:

<?php

header("Pragma: public");
header('Cache-Control: public');
header("Content-type: 'application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($FILE_PATH.$file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
//echo "\\n";
readfile($FILE_PATH.$file);

?>

The Pragma and cache-control seem to be needed by IE6 in order to work.  the
content type "image/gif" gave me some issues where the file was downloaded
but corrupted.  This stuff is completely ignored (broken) by IE on a
Macintosh, It will always just display the file. 

Thanks a lot for your help.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fee, Patrick J [SMTP:patrick.fee at baesystems.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:11 PM
> To:	'shiflett at php.net'; 'NYPHP Talk'
> Subject:	RE: [nycphp-talk] Anyway to force a download of GIF file?
> 
> Chris,
> 
> This is slightly off-topic, but do you have any idea how to do that in
> Cold
> Fusion?
> 
> Patrick J. Fee
> Web & Database Group Manager
> BAE SYSTEMS
> 600 Maryland Ave. SW  Suite 600
> Washington D.C. 20024
> Patrick.Fee at BAESYSTEMS.com
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Shiflett [mailto:shiflett at php.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:55 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Anyway to force a download of GIF file?
> 
> 
> --- "DeWitt, Michael" <mjdewitt at alexcommgrp.com> wrote:
> > I have been looking around for a way to get browsers to download
> > rather than display a GIF file.
> 
> Have you looked into the Content-Disposition header? With it you can
> specify
> a
> filename (convenient when the name of your PHP script isn't the name you
> want
> the browser to use), and you can indicate inline or attachment. You would
> want
> attachment.
> 
> Double-check my syntax, but I think it would go something like this:
> 
> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=blah.gif');
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Chris
> 
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