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[Brian Pang]

hmm...

IE 6.0.2 on *blush* Win98 uses the specified filename.

will investigate further

> Brian: On a quick test, this set of headers is forcing a Save As... dialog
> on my IE6 on WINXP. Good so far. But the filename is the name of the php
> page that sent down the headers and then the save fails.\
> 
> The following MS page contains a discussion of the issue I am having with
> your headers an d additional links to more known issues surrounding force
> download and IE:
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:
> 80/support/kb/articles/Q279/6/67.ASP&NoWebContent=1
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> PSaw
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Pang [mailto:bpang at bpang.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:36 PM
> To: psaw at pswebcode.com; NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Force File Download HTTP Headers and IE Issue
> 
> 
> I think this has been addressed in the archives already..
> but maybe not specific to PDF
> 
> this works for me. Still prompts to save, but fills in the filename.
Does it
> work for you?
> 
> 
> header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header("Pragma: no-cache");
> header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
> $fd=fopen("$filePath","r"); fpassthru($fd);
> 
> 
> > My question:
> > Anyone got a working runaround suggestion to force file downloads on 
> > IE?
> > 
> > My issue(s):
> > I am using PHP to write HTTP headers to force pdf file download to 
> > user roughly as follows:
> > 
> > blah, authenticate user, blah, select $file, blah... then push with...
> > 
> > header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
> > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
> > header("Content-Length: $iFileSize");
> > header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$iFileName"); 
> > readfile("$file");
> > 
> > Netscape conforms and opens the Save As... dialog as expected. IE6
> messes up
> > the content-disposition header and opens the download inline in the
> browser
> > without prompting user to Save As...
> > 
> > Seems regardless, of content-type header specified: 
> > application/octet-stream application/force-download
> > application/pdf
> > 
> > IE will mess it up. This is a known issue. Best run around I've seen
> so far
> > is to .Zip the files, in which case IE offers the Save As... on the 
> > download. Don't want to zip em.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Warmest regards,
> > 
> > Peter Sawczynec, Technology Director
> > PSWebcode -- Web Development and
> > Site Architecture
> > psaw at pswebcode.com
> > www.pswebcode.com
> > 718.543.3240
> > 
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