Header wierdness

[anderiv]

I've been working on a file distribution site. I've been doing all my testing with Mozilla. From what I could tell, it was working fine.

However, after trying it with IE, it seems like IE is not reading the headers correctly....here's the code that I'm using:

if ($action == "dl") {
  // send the necessary headers
  header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
  header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$file_name");
  header("Content-length: " . filesize($file_path.$file_name));
  header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary");

  // open the file for reading and start dumping it to the browser
 if (file_exists($file_path.$file_name)) {
    $fp = fopen($file_path.$file_name, "r");
    fpassthru($fp);
    // close the file
    fclose($fp);
  }
}

When I click the download link from Mozilla, it picks up the correct filesize, filename, etc and I am able to download the file with no problems. However when I click the download link from IE, it thinks the filename is the name of the php script.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[ir4z0r]

sometimes the name in the "save as.." box is .php, but it stores
the file correctly, did you check this?

I found this, maybe it helps:

	header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
	header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filename));

global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;
if (preg_match('/MSIE 5.5/', $HTTP_USER_AGENT) || preg_match('/MSIE 6.0/', $HTTP_USER_AGENT))
{
	header('Content-Disposition: filename="'.$saveasname.'"');
}
else
{
	header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$saveasname.'"');
}
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
readfile($filename);