download via header using flush()?

[Thomas Kemmerich]

hi,
i'm looking for a possibility to start a download.

here is my current code:
header("Content-Type: $_contenttype") ;
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$_fi lename\"");
// flush();
echo $filecontent;
this works fine. however i'm not satisfied with that code because it
seems as if the code first creates the complete file and then sends
the output to the browser. then the browser starts the downloadaction
and the filesize is always 1kb.

what i want the code to do is to start a normal download.
$filecontent will be created after sending the header (this is because
the file is decoded from an email - $filecontent is an
email-attachment).

what i've tried out is adding flush(); after sending the header. i
thought the browser would start the download dialog - however it
doesn't!

is there an additional header-tag that might help me? i've read
something about "content-size: filesize($file) ". but i don't believe
that this might help me!

greets micrix

[Calico Jack]

Thomas Kemmerich wrote:

hi,
i'm looking for a possibility to start a download.

here is my current code:
header("Content-Type: $_contenttype") ;
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$_fi lename\"");
// flush();
echo $filecontent;
this works fine. however i'm not satisfied with that code because it
seems as if the code first creates the complete file and then sends
the output to the browser. then the browser starts the downloadaction
and the filesize is always 1kb.

what i want the code to do is to start a normal download.
$filecontent will be created after sending the header (this is because
the file is decoded from an email - $filecontent is an
email-attachment).

what i've tried out is adding flush(); after sending the header. i
thought the browser would start the download dialog - however it
doesn't!

is there an additional header-tag that might help me? i've read
something about "content-size: filesize($file) ". but i don't believe
that this might help me!

greets micrix

Why wouldn't Content-size help you? Have you tried it? I believe that
is what you are looking for. If you want to avoid all of this stuff,
just do a header redirect via Location.

-Calico Jack-

[CountScubula]

Calico Jack <sg****@yahoo.c om> wrote in message news:<7I******* **********@bign ews5.bellsouth. net>...

Thomas Kemmerich wrote:

hi,
i'm looking for a possibility to start a download.

here is my current code:
header("Content-Type: $_contenttype") ;
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$_fi lename\"");
// flush();
echo $filecontent;
this works fine. however i'm not satisfied with that code because it
seems as if the code first creates the complete file and then sends
the output to the browser. then the browser starts the downloadaction
and the filesize is always 1kb.

what i want the code to do is to start a normal download.
$filecontent will be created after sending the header (this is because
the file is decoded from an email - $filecontent is an
email-attachment).

what i've tried out is adding flush(); after sending the header. i
thought the browser would start the download dialog - however it
doesn't!

is there an additional header-tag that might help me? i've read
something about "content-size: filesize($file) ". but i don't believe
that this might help me!

greets micrix

Why wouldn't Content-size help you? Have you tried it? I believe that
is what you are looking for. If you want to avoid all of this stuff,
just do a header redirect via Location.

-Calico Jack-

I use these
header("Content-type: Aplication/Octet-Stream");
header("Content-disposition: filename=$your_ file_name");
header("Content-length: number_of_bytes ");
header("Filenam e: $your_file_name ");

while(readfile. ...)
print file_contents;

Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools