Were you trying to download any files in the format "filename v1.0.2.0.exe"
I just tried using readfile and got the same results. Aaron "Jasper Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I created a download script a couple weeks ago I used > readfile($filename) instead of fread() and didn't get anything like what > you're getting. > > [snippet] > header("Content-type: $type"); > header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$file_name.'"'); > readfile($dfile); > [/snippet] > NOTE: $dfile = path + file; > > -- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------->> > Jasper Howard :: Database Administration > Velocity7 > 1.530.470.9292 > http://www.Velocity7.com/ > <<-------------------------------------------------------------- > "Aaron Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I've created a download script that works quite nicely. The only issue > with >> it is that when I download a file where the file name is like "filename >> v1.0.2.1.exe" there is some extra characters added into the name when it > is >> downloaded. So that file will be "filename v1[1].0.2.1.exe". I am >> wondering if this is my headers that are doing this, but I really dont > know. >> >> Here is my code: >> <?php >> $file = $_GET['file']; >> $path = $_GET['type']; >> $rootpath = "/home/virtual/site341/fst/var/www/downloads/"; >> $filename = "$rootpath$path/$file"; >> if (file_exists($filename)) { >> header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); >> header("Pragma: no-cache"); >> header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); >> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename=".basename($filename)); >> header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename)); >> $handle = fopen(($filename), "r"); >> print(fread($handle, filesize($filename))); >> flush(); >> fclose($handle); >> } else { >> header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); >> } >> ?> >> If anyone can let me know what is going on I'd appreciate it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Aaron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php