File-Download

Anon

Hi Folks.

I have a page on which I force the browser to open a download-dialogue as follows:

if (file_exists($path))
{
$fp = fopen ($path, "rb");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
fpassthru ($fp);
}

In $path and $filename are appropriate values...

So far, the download works perfect, but if i choose in the dialogue to open the file, the file can not be found...
I am using IE 6.

Can anybody help, please???

Thanks in advance,
Al.

ame12

Did you try outputting some dummy data (data not read from the file - just statically echoed out)? I would try this first and then build in the passthrough (with several different files) in case you're getting the wrong file opened .

Dave

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Anon

Hi Dave
Thanks for helping.

Even if I simply have an echo, The browser tells me, that the file ($filename) con not be found...

Thanks to your message, I found out that if I replace the following line:
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");

with that one:
header("Content-Disposition: attachment");

and I choose in the dialogue to open the file, the right file will be opened BUT the filename is the php-file, the script is running on.
That means even a zip-file will be opened such as a php-file...

Al.