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Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 07/22/05 18:26
* "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> :
> On Thu, July 21, 2005 4:55 am, Chris Shiflett said:
> > Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> > > I currently have a script which streams data out of a MySQL database,
> > > and prints the content headers correctly, however, when I use the
> > > following line:
> > >
> > > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"". $filename ."\"");
> > >
> > > it prompts the user to download the file each time they go to the site.
> >
> > Then it works. :-)
>
> But it will only work on *SOME* browsers -- those which honor the
> johnny-come-lately Content-Disposition header.
>
> Use Content-type: application/octet-stream to guarantee it gets downloaded
> in ALL browsers.
The OP indicated s/he *was* setting Content-Type.
They were also sending Content-Disposition in order to indicate the
suggested filename -- and wanted to alternately either send the filename
*or* have the content echoed to the screen. The 'solution' was to use
different URLs, and set Content-Disposition to either 'attachment' or
'inline', respectively.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Zend Certified Engineer
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
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