Re: [PHP] Problems with Zip+IE6

Hello,

if you use:

header("Content-Type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"somefile.zip\"");

That works for me with IE 6/7 and other browsers.

- Frank

damn! that's a pretty good article, thanks a lot.

unfortunatelly, it's not mentioning about zip files concretely, I
didn't
find a solution for my problem with them.
I tried playing a bit with the Content-type, but it seems that Internet
Explorer doesn't really care about "Content-type"... it uses the
extention
of the file to determine the type (microsoft's way...) so it doesn't
matter
if I use "application/octet-stream" or even "application/force-download"
or
"application/makethisdownload-or-ikillyou" :-D as long as I name the
file "
whatever.zip", IE6 shows the "open with" dialog and if I use "open" with
an
application, it fails :(

thanks again Richard for the answer and for the article :)

anybody with a miracle for the ZIP+IE problem??



On 12/5/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's kinda long, but this will probably save you some grief:
http://richardlynch.blogspot.com

On Tue, December 5, 2006 2:07 am, Javier Ruiz wrote:
Hi all!

I have a problem with zip files and Internet Explorer 6. I try to
send
to
the user a dinamically generated zip file writting the http headers
and
using file_put_contents for the zip content. It works fine when
downloading
the file with firefox, opera, etc... even it works well if I
download
the
file with internet explorer and then open it with any zip tool. The
problem
comes when I try to directly open the file from the URL using IE6.

I found this is a known bug of IE (several versions) in windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308090

Does anybody know any way to workaround this problem? I found a
couple
workarounds in forums over there and I tried them, but
unfortunately
they
didn't work:
1 - To change the mimetype (when writting http headers) from
"application/zip" that I used before to
"application/x-zip-compressed"
2 - To not use MOD_DEFLATE in apache2 (I was not using it
really...)



Any idea??

Thanks a lot!



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