IE6 file download name

[anorakgirl]

After much hairpulling, I have suceeded in getting IE 6 to show a file download box and show a file for me. The code I used is as follows:

$filename = "backup".gmdate("YMdHi").".sql.gz";
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 2001 05:00:00 GMT");              

header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); 
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");  

header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");                                    

header("Cache-control: private");                              

header("Content-Type: application/x-gzip" );                   

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");

$fd = popen("mysqldump -u $dbuser -p$password $dbname | gzip", 'r');
if ($fd !== FALSE) {
	while(!feof($fd)) {
   		echo fgets($fd);
	}
	pclose($fd);
}

The only thing is in say Firefox, the downloaded file is called
backup2004Jun020858.sql.gz
whereas IE always asks me to save a file called
backup2004Jun020858[1].sql.gz
with the [1] even though there is no existing file of this name. grr!

[shamly]

this is what i use to download a file,

header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file));
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));

readfile($file);

It works fine for me. Hope it helps