[H-GEN] Pdf-php puzzle

[Clinton Roy]

Hi Paul,

> My site http://www.qfom.com.au/membership/ has the DocumentRoot line of
> the Apache conf file pointing to a php file, this works very well (as
> you would expect), however, I am using the following lines of php code
> to output the file if it is a pdf file:

I'm just going to pretend that helping IE users is a compatibility
thing, and thus is on topic ;)

>       header("Content-type: application/pdf");

I believe that header name should be Content-Type, not Content-type.
As to the actual mime type, you might want to try
application/octet-stream or some such.

>       header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file);

>From a brief google, I think you should have quotes around that filename:
         header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="".$file.'"');

> Now this may come as a total surprise to you but it works perfectly in
> firefox but IE produces an error "There was an error opening this
> document. The file does not exist."

I have no access to IE to know if the above suggestions work at all.
What I can tell you is that Google links to microsoft support pages
when asked about content-disposition :)

hth,
-- 
Clinton Roy
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