file download?

[Bint]

Hello, this might be a newbie question. I am uploading files to my http
script, using $_FILES . That's how I get binary data into my script. How
do I return it? Echo only returns text data, right? Is there any way to
pass binary data back from a script?

Thanks
B

[Jerry Stuckle]

Bint wrote:

Hello, this might be a newbie question. I am uploading files to my http
script, using $_FILES . That's how I get binary data into my script. How
do I return it? Echo only returns text data, right? Is there any way to
pass binary data back from a script?

Thanks
B

Put the data into a file and download the file.

Echo will return anything you tell it. But most browsers will get quite
upset if you send characters not in the specified charset.

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[Kailash Nadh]

If you do a plain echo, the spew out the binary content as junk
characters.
Try a header() before echoing the data.

Something like
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

or whatever type of binary content it is.

[Kailash Nadh]

* the script spews out..

Sorry for the type.

Regards,
Kailash Nadh
http://kailashnadh.name

[taps128]

Bint wrote:

Hello, this might be a newbie question. I am uploading files to my http
script, using $_FILES . That's how I get binary data into my script. How
do I return it? Echo only returns text data, right? Is there any way to
pass binary data back from a script?

Thanks
B

header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=zipfile.zip');
echo $zipfile;