File Download

Anon

I have been trying to build a function in a php script file which when called by the POST method start downloading the requested file (tar type) on the clients side, but I always get the file contents displayed instead.

Any help would be appreciated.

Anon

it's difficult to solve the problem without the source-code!

Anon

sorry... Here it is

Calling script:
<FORM action=Module_Down.php3 method=post>
<SELECT name=pack_sel SIZE=1>
<OPTION SELECTED value=1>aaa.tar</OPTION>
<OPTION value=2>bbb.tar</OPTION>
<INPUT type=submit value=Download>
</FORM>

Module_Down.php3 :
<?
$fname="/usr/local/work/aaa.tar";
if (is_file($fname))
{
$fp = fopen($fname,"r");
header("Content-Discription: PHP3 Generated Data");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
fpassthru($fp);
}
else
{
echo ("File not Found....");
}
?>

Anon

the problem is the fpassthru($fp);

have a look at the php-manual:
"...and writes the result to standard output"

maybe you can redirect the standard output to a file, but don't ask me how!
the (hopefully) easiest way is to use the following code:
$contents=fread($fp, filesize($filename));
to read the file and afterwards use the fwrite-function to save the contents into a file

hope it will work...

Anon

after adding the code to Module_down.php3
header("Content-type: application/octetstream");

But the problem is instead of downloading the file as aaa.tar it is downloading with the name of the script that is Module_down.

Hope there is an answer to this new problem.
Thanks for the help.

Anon

could you post your new source-code, please!

i have an idea why this could happen, but i want to see the php-script first!

Anon

Here it is........
<?

$fname = "/usr/local/work/test.tar" ;

if (is_file($fname))

{

header("Content-type: */*; name=/usr/local/work/test.tar");

header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=test.tar");

header("Pragma: no-cache");

header("Expires: 0");

$file=fopen($fname, "r");


fpassthru($file);

}

else

{

// file not found report this problem to the administrator

   	echo ("DEBUG TEST: not found .........");

}

Anon

What if just make a

meta http-equiv="Refresh" content=......................statement to your tar file?

Anon

Adding the statement to the tar file give rise to another set of problems. Well I finally got the solution just the code
<?
header ("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=abc.tar ");
?>
has to be changed to :
<?
header ("Content-disposition: filename=abc.tar ");
?>
rest of the code is same.

Thanks everyone for there opinion.