Posted by Stephen Johnson on 03/08/05 21:25

Your right -- it is wrong. I cut and pasted that directly from a File
Sharing app I wrote for our company intranet.

I wrote that script a very long time ago (1999 or 2000). I think that,
originally, the first one didn't work and I added the second.

I forgot to remove it, maybe I though it was a good comment tag. That whole
file sharing systems was written in the weeee hours of the morning, so I
should probably go through and alter the code.

My bad.


<?php
/*

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?>

> From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com>
> Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:56:57 -0800 (PST)
> To: "Stephen Johnson" <php@thelonecoder.com>
> Cc: "zzapper" <david@tvis.co.uk>, "php" <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: A general question
>
>
> Call me crazy, but sending TWO Content-type: headers seems just plain
> WRONG to me.
>
> application/octet-stream will force a download in EVERY http-compliant
> browser.

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