[ciapug] fpassthru file download

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Dec 5, 2007 3:33 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:

> so I had to revisit this, and it seems a lot of people have this
> problem, but haven't found a solution.
>
> I want users to download a file that preferably lives outside of the
> webroot.  it works fine in FF and IE7, but IE6 won't pick up the file
> name I specify, it wants to name it my page name (download.php) - I
> accept that IE6 SP2 will force a download, I just want the name to be
> right.  anybody fixed this?
>
>
Here's my code:

// now we need to download the file
//header("Content-Type: application/ms-x-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$name\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

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Matthew Nuzum
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