Posted by Richard Levasseur on 07/17/06 07:35

Simon Rigby wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer Jerry.
>
> Simon
>
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > Simon Rigby wrote:
> > > Ah right, yes I understand. I was under the impression that using
> > > anything that wouldnt be recognised by the browser was part of
> > > "forcing" the download. I get it!
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why this is nt working in IE6.
> > >
> > > I have cut down the code to just apply the content disposition header.
> > > Still workin Firefox but no joy in IE.
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
> >
> > Probably because IE is ignoring the headers and doing what it wants -
> > it's notorious for that.
> >
> > At this point, you'll probably get better responses in alt.html. This
> > doesn't look like anything PHP is doing.
> >
> > --
> > ==================
> > Remove the "x" from my email address
> > Jerry Stuckle
> > JDS Computer Training Corp.
> > jstucklex@attglobal.net
> > ==================

By and large, i find force-download and saying the content type is some
sort of other format (x-octet-stream, iirc) works fairly well in IE. I
always have had the sneaking suspicion IE caches any file it recognizes
regardless of what any header says, though.

If you resolve this _please_ post how you did it - this is a problem i
always run into with IE. The solution always seems to be different,
too.

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