Downloading a file using header

[c_shelswell]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to get a page to work to download a file using the header function. It works great if you just click the link but if you right click 'save target as' (only in firefox for some reason) it trys to download the page i'm using to redirect to the file. Is there a way of stopping this?

 

This is what i have at the moment:

Header('Content-Type: application/zip');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
Header("Location: " . $downloadURL . $string . "/" . $filename);

[jaymc]

download that page in firefox and view the source, what does it say?

 

If filename contains slashes or any weird chars it can throw an error

 

strange only in firefox though

 

But yeh, when downloaded via firefox biew the source of the file

[c_shelswell]

the file that it's downloading is the same size as the zip file it should be downloading so i think it's probably just naming it wrong but that's what i thought the header code was supposed to do, force it to name correctly??