download of a pdf file

[Anon]

Hi,

i'm trying to force the dl of a pdf file form my site using:

$filesize = filesize($util_fichier);
if($filesize) {
$fp = fopen($util_fichier, "r");
$content = fread($fp, $filesize);
header("Content-disposition: filename=74.pdf");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print($content);
}

it doesn't work under IE (as usual), i guess becos of the pdf extension.
Any idea??
Thanks a lot

[Anon]

Hi,

The following works with IE 4 on Windows

$fileName = "test.pdf";
$filesize = filesize($fileName);
if($filesize) {
Header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
Header("Content-Length: ".$filesize);
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$fileName);
@readfile($fileName);
}

I think it was the Content-Type header and the way you passed the file that broke. Setting the content-type to application/pdf in your original code launches Acrobat, but the PDF is lost.

Johan

[Anon]

I think the problem is the "no cache" header. Try it without that.

-Todd