Hi,
I recently had this problem and, after hours of hair pulling, found that it
seems to work best if you send
the words Content-Type and Content-Disposition in **lower case**. Not sure
why it has to be like that but it was the only way I found.
HTH,
Danny.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomas Mikulecky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: [PHP] Discarded extension on file download
> Hi
>
> I am trying to offer downloading files from a web server, using PHP.
>
> The files are gzipped text and have all .txt.gz extensions. Now while on
> Windows systems both IE and Netscape offers to download it under the
> full name (althought IE adds [some_number] to the base of the file
> name), under Unix or Linux systems (tested with netscape 4.7) the '.gz'
> part is discarded from the file name and the file is saved with .txt
> only. Downloaded file is still gzipped.
>
> The part of script serving the files is as follows:
>
> header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$my_filename");
> echo($file_body);
>
> What am-I doing wrong? Thanks in advance
>
> Tom
>
>
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