download .pdf file

[Shazbot!]

I have successfully uploaded adobe .pdf's to a mssql 2005 server but now I am having issues downloading the file.

 

in IE

The download window will pop-up and ask to save or download.

if Download is chosen it will begin the transfer but stalls and says connect to server timeout.

 

if I open it I get binary description of the file.

 

in Firefox

The download window appears but the OK button is disabled.

 

I have been searching for different methods of downloading the file and here is the code that I have:

 

The file I am testing is only 213KB

 

 

$file = mssql_fetch_array($result);
//obtained from http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,141818.0.html
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file[3]");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: $file[2]");
readfile("$file[0]");



/*	
or
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
//header("Cache-Control: public, no-cache");
//header("Content-type: application/octetstream");
header("Content-length: $row[2]"); //size
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file[3]"); 
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
//	header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");
//readfile($file[0]);
echo $file[0];



*/

 

thanks in advance

 

 

 

[chigley]

From the manual:

 

<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

[Shazbot!]

Thanks chigley ,

That worked to some degree, the file will download corrupted  because there is no content-length listed. If I add the content-length less than 999 it works, but the file is still corrupted. If the length is greater than 999 then it will stall and not download.

 

Not saying that the content-length is causing the corruption but there is something happing here that is causing the file to be downloaded corrupted.