Prompt to "Save As" No Matter What The File Type

[Richie]

What I want is to have a link to a file (it could be a .zip, .exe, .jpg,
..txt or even .html) and when the user clicks on it they are prompted with
the Save As box, as opposed to it opening in the browser.
I think I need to do something like:

$fp = fopen($filetoou tput, "rb");
$thefile = fread($fp, filesize($thefi letooutput));
header("Content-type: ???/???"); not sure what to put instead of the ???
echo $thefile;

If anyone can help that would be much appreciated
Richie

[Jedi121]

Re: Prompt to "Save As" No Matter What The File Type

Richie a écrit le 27/01/2004 :[color=blue]
> What I want is to have a link to a file (it could be a .zip, .exe, .jpg,
> .txt or even .html) and when the user clicks on it they are prompted with
> the Save As box, as opposed to it opening in the browser.
> I think I need to do something like:
>
> $fp = fopen($filetoou tput, "rb");
> $thefile = fread($fp, filesize($thefi letooutput));
> header("Content-type: ???/???"); not sure what to put instead of the ???
> echo $thefile;
>
> If anyone can help that would be much appreciated
> Richie[/color]

Don't mess up the Content-type header, consider using :
<?php
header("Content-disposition: attachment;
filename=my_nam e_of_the_file") ;
?>
But look at Google for know issues on some browser versions.

[Shawn Wilson]

Re: Prompt to &quot;Save As&quot; No Matter What The File Type

Richie wrote:[color=blue]
>
> What I want is to have a link to a file (it could be a .zip, .exe, .jpg,
> .txt or even .html) and when the user clicks on it they are prompted with
> the Save As box, as opposed to it opening in the browser.
> I think I need to do something like:
>
> $fp = fopen($filetoou tput, "rb");
> $thefile = fread($fp, filesize($thefi letooutput));
> header("Content-type: ???/???"); not sure what to put instead of the ???
> echo $thefile;[/color]

Google for content-disposition header. Set it to "attachment ", I think. That
doesn't work on some browsers, though.

Shawn
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[Richie]

Re: Prompt to &quot;Save As&quot; No Matter What The File Type


"Jedi121" <jedi121news@fr ee.fr.Removethi s> wrote in message
news:mesnews.dd 047d41.6e4253bc .504.2689@free. fr.Removethis.. .[color=blue]
> Richie a écrit le 27/01/2004 :[color=green]
> > What I want is to have a link to a file (it could be a .zip, .exe, .jpg,
> > .txt or even .html) and when the user clicks on it they are prompted[/color][/color]
with[color=blue][color=green]
> > the Save As box, as opposed to it opening in the browser.
> > I think I need to do something like:
> >
> > $fp = fopen($filetoou tput, "rb");
> > $thefile = fread($fp, filesize($thefi letooutput));
> > header("Content-type: ???/???"); not sure what to put instead of the ???
> > echo $thefile;
> >
> > If anyone can help that would be much appreciated
> > Richie[/color]
>
> Don't mess up the Content-type header, consider using :
> <?php
> header("Content-disposition: attachment;
> filename=my_nam e_of_the_file") ;
> ?>
> But look at Google for know issues on some browser versions.
>
>[/color]

That worked great, thanks.
Hopefully on the few browsers that it doesn't work on, it'll just open the
file in the browser as normal

Richie

[John Dunlop]

Re: Prompt to &quot;Save As&quot; No Matter What The File Type

Richie wrote:
[color=blue]
> What I want[/color]

Perhaps unwittingly, you've made known the root of the perceived
problem already: what you want and what someone else wants aren't
necessarily one and the same.
[color=blue]
> is to have a link to a file (it could be a .zip, .exe, .jpg, .txt or
> even .html) and when the user clicks on it they are prompted with the
> Save As box, as opposed to it opening in the browser.[/color]

(a) What "Save As box"? My browser didn't come with one. ;-)

(b) What makes you think that you know how I ought to deal with
files?

(c) Which piece of software would you have me open an HTML file with,
if not my browser?
[color=blue]
> header("Content-type: ???/???"); not sure what to put instead of the ???[/color]

The file's media type perchance? Here's the authoritative registry
for Internet media types:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assi...s/media-types/

And you'll see that Content-Disposition -- a non-HTTP/1.1 header,
defined in the experimental RFC1806 -- has been put forward as a
suggestion in other followups, which have rightly warned against
sending illegitimate Content-Type headers. If your wish is to convey
presentational information, this is the logical way.

But sending this header, with a disposition type of attachment, does
*not* guarantee that a client will ask the user what she wants done
with the file; not being part of the HTTP/1.1 draft standard,
conforming applications aren't obliged to act upon Content-
Disposition headers. I reckon RFC1806's intention is *not*, without
a smidgen of a doubt, to provide servers with the mechanism to
"force" particular actions on clients. Is that not your inference
too?

--
Jock

[laidbak]

Re: Prompt to &quot;Save As&quot; No Matter What The File Type

>doesn't work on some browsers, though.

It should not work in IE 4.x browsers and below.
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