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Sep 24.2007

I implemented a download routine in a web page and it appears that the files for FireFox users work, under IE nothing happens, under Safari nothing happens…
I will assume Opera is doing the same.

[code=php]header(‘Content-Type: application/force-download’);
header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”‘.$file.'”‘);
readfile($file);[/code]

Is their more information or extra headers needed to cause the file to download to be accepted by the browser?

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@rootauthorSep 24.2007 — Thx, will try it out.
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@ZnupiSep 24.2007 — Here's the way I do it:
[code=php]
header("Cache-Control: no-cache");
header("Pragma: ");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename"");
header("Content-length: " . filesize("path/to/file"));
[/code]
That works perfect for me in Firefox, IE and Opera. Dunno about Safari but I suppose it works ?
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