Force Download - Just doesn't work on Mac i.e. ?

[Anon]

Can someone please, please help.

I am writing several apps that require a forced download of files.

I have tens of examples that work on PC but everyone of them displays the file in the browser on Macintosh i.e.

The current code I am using is:

<?

if($filename){
$fname="../$drive/lo/$filename"."lo.jpg";
$name=$filename."lo.jpg";

$fp = fopen($fname, "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($fname));
fclose($fp);

header("Content-type: application/RFC822");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
print($contents);
exit;
}
%>

I really need to solve this as many of the end-users will be Mac based.

I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Leigh

[Anon]

It's in the content type.
If you tell your browser that pages with content-type=zip should be saved to disk, it will save to disk. If you tell it to open it in the browser, it will open it in the browser.

It sounds like on the Mac, the default action is to open it in a browser window instead of downloading it.

Set the content type to something that the Mac browser will download instead of view.