On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Stephen Adler <ad...@stephenadler.com> wrote: > Hi Blu, > > I'm writing a web application which downloads files using PHP. The trick to > getting a file to download using your browser is to send it a key set of > header messages which tell the browser that a file is on its way. I've poked > around the web to find several example of the headers that one needs to > send, but as usual, there seems to be more under the surface than the simple > 3 line example.
Is there a reason you can't just link them directly to the file and let the web server itself handle it? If there is, then to the best of my recollection you really only need to set the content-type header, possibly the content-length, then open the file and start reading and sending the content. It's been a little while since I did this last, but from what I can recall it was much simpler than you seem to be making it. -Dan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
