Understanding Header information

rtcary

I have created a XML file that I want to send to the user so the user can save it as a file. Probably it is my deficiency, however I find the documentation on what should be in the Header obtuse at best. Is there some documentation that is simple?

The xml file ends as

I send it with

function send_xml($fname) {
$contents = file_get_contents($fname);
header('Content-Length: ' . strlen($contents));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($fname) . '"');
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-4');
print ($contents);
}

And when the file is saved by the user, it has this tacked on:

<ApprovalDate>12/31/1969</ApprovalDate>
</QTODAY>
</dataroot>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no

What have I missed?

Thank you for your patience and help...

Todd

NogDog

Is that HTML text somewhere in the script that calls the function? The file serving up the download must only output the download content. In other words, you don't want to call the function from within a web page script; it should be its own, stand-alone script.

rtcary

Yup! I needed an "exit" to end the process! Cleared it up.

Many thanks....

Todd