readfile + content-type

[Anon]

I'm using mod_rewrite to redirect a browser to my authentication script.
Once the user is authenticated, I then want to be able to display the url they were browsing in the first place.

I readfile() the $REQUEST_URI, it opens the file, but I just get raw data output
rather than, for example, the image (.gif) referenced.

Is this because the Browser/Server cannot detect the content-type??

any ideas??

thanks,

Joe.

[brandonschnell]

if your using readfile() you're probably also going to need to send the mime type.

try sending:
header("Content-type: image/gif");

before the readfile() for images.