Posted by lawrence k on 03/14/07 14:56

I want files like this to download, rather than play in people's
browsers:

http://www.monkeyclaus.org/media/audio/abel_okugawa/816_mix/trumpethed.mp3

Can I fix this with a directive in an .htaccess file? If not, suppose
I serve it through a php file that opens the file and reads and
streams it to the requesting browser. Is there some header I could
sent with the header() function that would force a download? Would I
be breaking the internets if I sent a long an unknown mime-type just
to force a download?

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