The relentless pursuit of peace <IE5.5 >

[Anon]

Again, I realize this question is kind of old and I have read through almost every message on this server relating in ANY way to this subject. I also realize that Microsoft has changed the way their 5.5 browser interprets headers and MIME types. Ok my question is still: How can I force a download in IE5.5. Yes I know all about using a different MIME type that the browser doens't know and/or using octet-stream or putting CONTENT-ATTACHMENT but none of these work in IE5.5. If you read some of my earlier posts there were quite a few good responses to my query and most all of them worked in all browsers BUT IE5.5 and that is the specific one I need to get it to work. As a quick snippet, here is the code I have on the site now and in 5.5 it downloads the PHP page and not the actual file like I want it too.

$fp=fopen("http://www.MYURL.ws/DIR/$filename" , "r");
$fsize = filesize("http://www.MYURL.ws/DIR/$filename");
$mimetype="mime-special";
header("Content-type: $mimetype");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Content-Description: PHP3 Generated Data");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
fpassthru($fp);

Ok so why re-post this eternal question. Answer is simple enough; there is ALWAYS a way. I am certain that Microwoft has not blocked ALL avenues to reach my goal. For those of you who are tempted to suggest an alternative method (god forbid the right click-save as instructions) here is why I am being so adamant about this is because I know their is a way and really don't want it to work differently.

I run a Sound Repository. Media Player, when you click File - Save from the menus's puts a [1] on the end of the filename so bill.wav becomes bill[1].wav and I don't know why. Now the problem lies in that this is for Yahoo! Chat and when people play their sound file <snd=bill[1]> other people don't hear it because they have the bill.wav ... so that is my dilema and yet instructios for people to right-click are tedious/not followed and generally not a good idea. A working example of my query is at this URL (forewarning: it doesn't work in IE5.5)

www.iquest.ws/?sndr.1
scroll down and click on And of the little Disk Drive icons then click on "Download".

Again thank you in advance and if i still can't figure it out, expect another post in another month or two.

Jace

[steved]

Here's a work around I've had success with.

// Special adjustment to fix bug in IE 5.5
if(eregi("MSIE 5.5",$HTTP_USER_AGENT))
$attachment = " ";
else
$attachment = "attachment;";

Header("Content-type: application/unknown");
Header("Content-Disposition: $attachment filename=MyReport.txt");
Header("Content-Description: My Report");

[Anon]

Steve,

I tried your code but unfortunately it pops up the Media Player and plays the file. Its a step in the right direction but not quite there yet. The problem with Media Player 6 and 7 for windows is that it doesn't require the extension to determine the music type. I've tried in the past to change the extension on the fly to even .zip but Media player still recognizes it as a sound file and plays it. Any other suggestions? Please...

Jace