[Resolved] [Resolved] save as dialog - wrong filename in IE6

cassio

I have a php download script that pops up a Save As dialog for users to download a file, but IE6 initializes the filename with the name of the script instead of the name given in the Content-Disposition header.
Is there any way to fix this?

eriksmoen

you have not posted your code, but this has always worked for me:

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$savename");
header('Content-Type: application/x-force-download; name="$savename"');

cassio

Thanks for the reply, but
I've tried that exact same code before and many variations of it and I get the same problem - "save as" dialog comes up and downloads work fine, but the only thing is that the file name in the dialog is the name of the script and not the name in the content-disposition header. This is the code I have in there now:

header("Cache-control: private\n");
header("Pragma: private\n");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream\n");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename={$file}\n");
header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary\n");
header('Content-length: ' . filesize($file)) . "\n";

fp = fopen($file, 'rb');
buf = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose ($fp);
print $buf;

freebie

whoops, wrong thread

Sgarissta

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
   		header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
   		header("Content-length: ".filesize($file));
   		header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($file)."\"");
    	if ($fp = fopen("$file", 'rb')) {
    		while(!feof($fp) and (connection_status()==0)) {
      			print(fread($fp, 1024*7));
  	    		flush();
    		}
    		$status = (connection_status()==0);
    		fclose($fp);
  		}

This has always worked out well for me.

[edit] It also has a bit in there to limit the amount of bandwidth used by a given user, as this script ran over 100mb connections, we had a tendency to saturate the data center's connection 🙂 To fix it just play with the print(fread($fp.... part, as it handles the buffering.