Force Download (yes one more...)

[monAmour]

I'm having a strange problem with my force downloading function. It's that everything works out very nice using Firefox but in explorer I just get the "Save as" prompt and after that everything dies and an error msg is displayed.

This is the code I'm using for my download function as a part of my complete filemanager.
As you see all kinds of file-types could be downloaded.

// FORCE DOWNLOAD FROM FILEMANAGER
$fileId = $_GET['fileId'];
$path = "/server/projectfiles/project_";

if ($_GET['action'] == "download") {

// Get file-data
$query = "SELECT projectId,physicalName,virtualName FROM filemanagerTbl WHERE id=". $fileId;
$rs = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($rs) != 0) {
	$path .= mysql_result($rs, 0, 'projectId') ."/";


	// Get content-type
	$exp = explode(".", mysql_result($rs, 0, 'virtualName'));
	$fileExt = "." . $exp[count($exp)-1];

	switch($fileExt) {

		case ".jpg" : $cType = "image/jpeg"; break;
		case ".gif" : $cType = "image/gif"; break;
		case ".png" : $cType = "image/png"; break;
		case ".asf" : $cType = "video/x-ms-asf"; break;
		case ".avi" : $cType = "video/avi"; break;
		case ".doc" : $cType = "application/msword"; break;
		case ".zip" : $cType = "application/zip"; break;
		case ".xls" : $cType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"; break;
		case ".wav" : $cType = "audio/wav"; break;
		case ".mp3" : $cType = "audio/mpeg3"; break;
		case ".mpg" : $cType = "video/mpeg"; break;
		case ".mpeg" : $cType = "video/mpeg"; break;
		case ".rtf" : $cType = "application/rtf"; break;
		case ".pdf" : $cType = "application/pdf"; break;
		case ".html" : $cType = "text/html"; break;

		default : $cType = "application/octet-stream";

	}


	// Download
	Header("Content-type: ". $cType);
	Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'. mysql_result($rs, 0, 'virtualName') ."\"\n");
	Header("Content-transfer-encoding: binary");
	Header("Content-length: ". filesize($path . mysql_result($rs, 0, 'physicalName')). "\n");
	readfile($path . mysql_result($rs, 0, 'physicalName'));
}

Somebody help me...!

[croote]

Hi ,

i've just post a message about force download too ;-)
I think you should respect excatly the tag's name of the header ie "content-Type" and not "content-type". I've heard it's quite important for some browsers.
I hope that will help you.
good luck.
bye

[monAmour]

Thanks croote for your answer. The thing is that I got this lille Microsoft-ified code to work on my other server:

	Header("Content-Type: application/x-msdownload");
		Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=". mysql_result($rs, 0, 'virtualName'));
		readfile($path . mysql_result($rs, 0, 'physicalName'));
		exit;

but it doesn't on the server I want it to.