| re: How to raise File Download box in WindowsCE client
"Nathan Gardiner" <nate@nate.id.au> wrote in message news:<40bc5ae8$0$322$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>...[color=blue]
> "Pedro Fonseca" <nospam@pedrofonseca.com> wrote in message
> news:15109a72.0405310227.4b4afa06@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > Greetings!
> >
> > In my PHP website I'm trying to raise a File Download dialog directly
> > in a WindowsCE IE client with the following code:
> >
> > header( "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n" );
> > header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file\"\n" );
> > header( "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n" );
> > header( "Content-Length: " . filesize($path.$file) . "\n" );
> >
> > The dialog does appear, but instead of prompting the user to save a
> > something.zip filename (for instance) it prompts him to save a file
> > called script.php (the name of the script that has this code). This is
> > very strange, since I know that this code is the cookbook approach to
> > do this, and it works perfectly in all PC browsers that I know of. It
> > seems that WindowsCE IE completely ignores the filename attribute in
> > the Content-Disposition HTTP header... :-(
> >
> > I've been suggested to feed the link directly to the client, through
> > header("Location: ..."). I did try that, but instead of a dialog, the
> > client browser just displays the binary file in the HTML page...
> >
> > Is there a PHP workaround to using the Content-Disposition headers
> > approach with WindowsCE? And using header("Location: ...") how do I
> > stop the client WindowsCE browser from displaying garbage binary data
> > and prompt him to save the file instead?
> >
> > Sorry if this thread belongs in a more specific WindowsCE newsgroup. I
> > just thought that, since I'm using PHP, that any PHP user here could
> > have developed for the WindowsCE before and stumbled on the same
> > problem...
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Best regards![/color]
>
> Pedro,
>
> My understanding is that this is broken in some browsers. I've seen
> different results in every different version of IE that I've ever had a look
> at.
> You may find that selecting 'open' when the script.php download box appears
> will open another dialog box with the correct filename.
>
> My only suggestion is to update the client software to the latest version.
> It's not something you can control via your PHP script, as far as I am aware
>
>
> Nathan[/color]
Thanks Nathan, I appreciate your answering. I didn't have many hopes
of getting the thing done without updating/changing the browser
client, and you confirmed it. Thanks!
Best regards!
Pedro Fonseca (ADETTI/ISCTE)
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