Posted by Mark Sargent on 06/09/05 08:21

Richard Lynch wrote:

>On Mon, June 6, 2005 11:02 pm, Mark Sargent said:
>
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>>>>The correct way - if one wants utf-8 as charset - is:
>>>>header("Content-Type: index/html; charset=utf-8");
>>>>
>>>>
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>>actually, if I add this,
>>
>>header("Content-Type: index/html; charset=utf-8");
>>
>>as suggested, firefox prompts to download the page, instead of just
>>displaying the page.
>>
>>You have chosen to open
>> productdetails.php
>>which is a : PHP file
>>from: http://localhost/
>>What should firefox do with this file?
>>Open with Browse..
>>Save to disk
>>
>>Weird, what's with that. Cheers.
>>
>>
>
>Sigh.
>
>
me too

>I think they implemented the IE bug that looks at URLs instead of Headers
>in some cases.
>
>
actually, get this in both Firefox and Mozilla

>Rename your PHP script to be .htm,
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done

> and then use .htaccess with ForceType
>to make it really be a PHP script.
>
><Files productdetails.htm>
> ForceType application/x-httpd-php
></Files>
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just checking; that goes into the .htaccess file, which is placed in the
same dir as the files for this site..?

>Then the browser CAN NOT KNOW you used PHP to generate the file, so cannot
>possibly screw up...
>
>
if above is correct, it did, with the renamed productdetails.htm
page...this is after restarting the server too..did I misunderstand
something.?

>Well, at least it can't screw up in the way it is doing now. :-)
>
>
perhaps it's just me..?

Cheers.

Mark Sargent.

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