Wrong Download Name

[Shawazi]

I just came onto a project where a visitor downloads a file after hitting a button. The button goes to a .php file and then uses header functions to initiate the download. The problem is after a server switch, the .exe is file is downloading as filename.php. The download is the file seeing as renaming it to .exe makes it run properly.

	header("Pragma: public");
	header("Expires: 0");
	header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
	header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$fileName."\"\nContent-length: ".(string)(filesize($fileName)));
	header("Content-Description: File Transfer");

if I exit the program to echo out $fileName it shows it as filename.exe correctly yet it's still downloading as the php.

[Shawazi]

I broke

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$fileName."\"\nContent-length: ".(string)(filesize($fileName)));

to

	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$fileName."\"");
	header("Content-length: ".(string)(filesize($fileName)));

Any clue why this change made it work? This was working on a prior server just fine. What settings may be different on this one?

[niroshan]

Hi,

I have wrote something like this to download an image files. I`ll post you the coding try it.

$file='administrator/test.gif';
$f = @fopen($file,"r");

header("Content-Type:  image/gif");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" .basename($file));
$data="";
while (!feof($f)) $data.=fread($f,64000);
fclose($f);
print $data;

good luck.

Regards,
Niroshan