What's with this website?

acpaulley

Every time I try to download a snippit, in either IE or Netscape, the file is sent to me as a file named "download.php" in ASCII text, whether it's a zip file or a php or text file.

Aaron

kucukadam

i is the php file that you want to download, so its names is download.php; i didnt understand whats wrong

acpaulley

EVERY time I try to download ANYTHING it is named "download.php". ZIP files, PHP files, TAR.GZ files, EVERYTHING.

I have to download them and rename them to what they were supposed to be. Does this is IE and Netscape.

spirp

I guess this has with the fact that all files you download goes through a wrapper, download.php. I know that there's supposed to be a way to set the filename for the file being downloaded (probably through HTTP headers), but I don't know how to do this. This should of course be done server side, and as far as I know there is nothing you can do about it.. :\

//Olle

dalecosp

Sounds like the webserver doesn't know what the heck a *.php file is...some sysadmin needs to know about this...if they give a rip...

If you run the server, you need to tell (Apache or whatever) how to parse PHP files. In apache, you need an "AddType" directive including the .php extension.....

spirp

I'd say that's not the problem. The problem is that all files are stored in a database, or an offsite area. To download them you have to use a parser (which in this case is called download.php). The parser takes an argument which identifies the file and sends the file to the user just as an ordinary php-script would send the output (think GD and image creation). The problem occurs when the browser thinks the file it downloads is download.php, which in fact it isn't.

How can one fix this? Is it possible to set an alternate filename using HTTP-headers, ie redirect or something? Any suggestions?

stolzyboy

what platform are you on, i have had this happen on my mac ie browser, but not on my win ie 6 browser, no fix that i know of for the mac issue, has happened since version ie 4.x for mac

jerdo

Sounds like you are right-clicking on the linking and selecting save target as. The site probably actually links to a download.php to let you select the location for the file or to keep people from using site download programs. Try left clicking and letting the site take you to the download page or the php to process it's information.

stolzyboy

i don't think that is the problem, with the mac platform anyway, it may be for other browsers

jerdo

It has nothing to do with browsers. Look at mysql.com and go to download. Right click and select save target/link as and you will get a file called download.php, however if you left click on it you are sent to a page to select a mirror.

Mordecai

This is just because of the way the wrapper (download.php) is working. By using headers to rewrite the location, it should work correctly. Something like this would work:
header("Location: http://www.google.com/");

The only real problem is that you have to know the exact (static) location. However, since the filename is sent to the wrapper any way, all you need to know is the server and directory. Assuming you're not on a mirror, you could easily leave the http://www.phpbuilder.com/ in, and all would work.

In contrast, if one were to use this on a mirror, it would not act correctly. One would have to use something similar to this, instead:
header("Location: http://".$SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].dirname($SERVER['PHP_SELF']).$filename);

This all works correctly on Apache.

stolzyboy

like i said i know it IS a MAC browser problem, i have tested this problem over and over again, regardless if you just click to download the file, or right click and download link to disk, it is the way the mac browser interprets it. it happens with cgi download options with perl also, you may be correct about the wrapper problem when people with IE on a pc encounter this problem by saving target to disk, but it is a known MAC problem, that is all i was saying 🙂

spirp

I found the idea of creating a filewrapper interesting enough to start a new thread, "Downloading through a filewrapper", so if anyone else but me would like to continue the discussion there, I'm eagerly waiting (otherwise I guess I'll have to start talking to my self.. hmm 🙂

// Olle