Ignore Content-Disposition header?

dalecosp · Sep 17, 2019

First off, does search here suck all the time or only on occasion now? I always try and search for something related to a query before I post one, but generally all I get is the "wait" GIF, and, after 30 seconds or so, I assume there's nothing here related to my issue, close the browser tab and reopen another one to post a question.

I've been using file_get_contents() to download images we use from our sellers. One of them is using IIS 7.0 and is sending Content-Disposition:attachment and it's causing some issues. Is it possible to ignore this header?

NogDog · Sep 17, 2019

Not something I've ever encountered, but my hunch is that using cURL functions instead of file_get_contents() will give you more options. For instance, this comment shows how somebody did it (a bunch of years ago!):

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php#52675

dalecosp · Sep 17, 2019

Thanks for the reply. I've already decided to do some testing with cURL, so it's nice to have someone else confirm that I'm not crazy.

sneakyimp · Sep 17, 2019

dalecosp I can't comment on what might happen with file_get_contents when you get a content-disposition header as I have not replicated the situation. I will say that I almost never use file_get_contents or other such functions for fetching remote files because it's subject to the PHP config and remote urls are typically disabled by default. CURL is not always installed, but I find that in practice it usually is. You get a lot more control. In fact, there are so many options that I pretty much always write a class or custom function to encapsulate my curl code.