[SOLVED] Downloading a file through PHP works in firefox and safari, not IE

[danno74]

Greetings all!

 

I have this code in my software download page so that when you click on a link to download a program, you cannot obtain the direct link:

<?php
session_start();

if (isset($_SESSION['fullname']))
{
      //Location of file, must be out of web root
      $file_location='/downloads/FileZilla_2_2_7c_setup.exe';
      
      //open file
      $file=fopen($file_location,'r');
      
      //get file size
      $file_size=filesize($file_location);
      
      //read the file
      $content=fread($file,$file_size);
      
      //close the file
      fclose($file);
      
      //supply the right file format      
      header('Content-type: application/exe');
      
      //force browser to prompt to download file
      //cool option of this header is that allows you to rename the file
      header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FileZilla_2_2_7c_setup.exe"');
    
      
      //finally echo content
      echo $content;
}
else

header("Location: https://www");


        
?>

 

Works in FF and Safari, not IE  . I get this error:

IE cannot download title2.php from www. IE was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

 

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

 

- Dan

 

 

[Mark Baker]

Are you accessing the download page over ssl?

[alexdemers]

Use PHP: readfile - Manual instead. Make sure to include the headers:

 

Pragma: no-cache

Expires: 0

[alexdemers]

To add to my previous post:

 

set headers and call readfile('yourfile.txt'); that's it.

[danno74]

Mark - it is on our secure shtml tree on the server. So the SSL cert and https does apply, but it's just the area of the test server I have access to, on production it will be on http.

 

Thanks alex, I will work on that header info and see if that works.

 

 

[danno74]

I added the expire and pragma and it worked! I didn't know what you meant to do in your second post.

 

Thank you!