File download adds two bytes to filesize

[Anon]

Using almost every header I could think of - one of the simplest being:

header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header ("Content-Length: ".filesize("$image_location/".$imageid."".$image) );
header ("Content-Disposition: filename=\"$image\"");
readfile("$image_location/".$imageid."".$image);

I found that both Netscape (4.07) and IE5 add two extra bytes at the end of the files I am sending. Both bytes have the value 0. In fact, it looks as if both browsers ignore the Content-Length header since I can fill in any bogus value I like and the result is the same (filesize after download is the original file size plus 2). I am using php-4.0.0 with apache 3.1.12. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Anon]

i do think if you try sending the file like this you won't have those 2 extra bytes... 🙂

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$file = fopen($file_path.'/'.$file_name, "r");
if (!$file) {
echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n";
exit;
}
//while (!feof($file)) {
print fread($file, filesize($file));

//}
fclose($file);

[Anon]

To my utmost shame, I have to admit that the two extra bytes were caused by two characters after the closing tag ;(

Sorry for not sharing any earlier, this was too embarrassing...

Nico