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[Anon]

I'm using the basic script that everyone else seems to agree works best for forcing IE to "Save File As".

Something of this nature:

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
$fh = fopen("/www/docs/$name", "r");
fpassthru($fh);
exit;

Unfortunately if the user chooses to "Open File From This Location" instead of "Save File As" and the file is HTML IE will still display the file in the browser. If the file contains any javascript that javascript will run (bad).

Does anyone know how to get around this vexing problem?

Thanks in advance

frodo

[trellie]

first of all... get rid of these headers:
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

they are only used in mime-email...

second:
i don't know 🙂)

[ame12]

Try

header("Content-Type: /");

I've used that in the past and it always seems to force a save-as dialog with IE.

Dave

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[Anon]

Jeroen,

taking out these two lines is NOT a good idea, in fact IE will display any file directly in the browser, at least on IE 5.

but thanks for taking the time to try and figure this out.

frodo