ftp_get stopped functioning

skypilot

Back in February we had a basic ftp_get routine coded and functioning properly. The routine would select a file from our web site and within the ftp_get would prompt the user for where to put this file locally.

All of a sudden it fails....we changed nothing
The failure mode is to spit out garbage characters across the screen.

Does anyone know of a change made to PHP that would lead to this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Anon

Sounds like your script is outputting bad/deformed/missing headers. Can you post the relevant portion?

skypilot

Thanks for responding. Here's the relevent section of code:

<?php

$select_file = "test123.doc";

$ftp = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
ftp_login($ftp, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass);

$phpftp_dir = "www/scripts";
ftp_chdir($ftp,$phpftp_dir);
srand((double)microtime()1000000);
$randval = rand();
$tmpfile="/www/blazingstar/scripts/" . $select_file . "." . $randval;
ftp_get($ftp,$tmpfile,$select_file,FTP_BINARY);
ftp_quit($ftp);
if (!$file_mime_type) {
$file_mime_type="application/octet-stream";
}
/header("Content-Type: " . $file_mime_type);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $select_file); */
readfile($tmpfile);
@unlink($tmpfile);
?>

Any suggestions?
SP

Anon

Did you know that you have the header lines commented out?

skypilot

Hi.....

Yes...sorry....we were doing some debugging and forgot to "uncomment" these lines.

Regardless......it still does not function???

Any idea why this would happen all of a sudden????

majik-sheff

Have you changed/updated browsers recently?

skypilot

We are currently using Netscape 4.7 and, no we have not changed browsers.

Do you see anything inherently wrong with this this code sample?

majik-sheff

You say your browser is printing garbage?

your code appears valid, so the only suggestion I can make would be to telnet to the server and manually request the page so you can view the headers being sent. You're using variables in your header statements so I'd almost bet money that that's where your problem is.

One suggestion:
if (!$file_mime_type) {

should probably look like:
if (!isset($file_mime_type)) {