Re: Unexpected newline prepended to file

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:47:00 -0800 (PST), C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:
Hi all,

This is doing my head in!

I've got what should be a very simple script to download a file.
Actually it does lots of other things - but I can replicate the
behaviour easily using this:

<?php
header("Cache-Control: max-age=30, must-revalidate");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=
\"test.doc\"");
header("Content-Type: application/msword");
print file_get_contents('/home/colinm/msword.doc');
?>

However, MS Word reports that it is not a doc file and says I need to
install a filter. The original file IS a msword document, but the file
is somehow getting prepended with a newline character on its journey.

Which newline character? LF, CR, CRLF? What do you edit your PHP on? Is
there a line-ending on the line with ?> on it? (There shouldn't be,
FWIW. Some things will work with stuff after the > but it's not a good
idea. Make sure the cursor doesn't go anyplace after > .)

--
I still want a phone with caller-IQ.
-- Tanuki in the monastery
.

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