Hi
For some reason this works for me, can even download .html files
$headertxt = "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$filename."\"";
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");header($headertxt);
Tom
At 12:09 AM 12/04/01 +0500, Vikram Vaswani wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have a script which sends the following headers in order to get the
>client to display a "file save" prompt.
>
> > header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
> > header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
> > readfile($filename);
>
>This works well on Netscape/lynx. However, IE 5.5 has a problem with this -
>I get a message saying that the "file could not be found". Looked around
>online, some sites say that this is an IE-specific issue with MIME-type
>recognition.
>
>However, I see sites like yahoo and deja allowing users to download email
>attachments using a similar technique, and that works fine on IE. Any ideas
>on what I'm doing wrong here?
>
>TIA!
>
>Vikram
>
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