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[nycphp-talk] PHP headers and Mac Machine Downloads

LY heli_travel at yahoo.com
Wed May 7 13:59:02 EDT 2003


Hi Gary,

I still can't open it on the Mac. I can open this in windows
with no problem. It still gives me a url in eMac, it doesn't
give me the "downloaded.csv".
Please advise!

Thanks!

--- "Malcolm, Gary" <gmalcolm at professionalcredit.com> wrote:
> this worked for me...
> 
>     header("Pragma: ");
>     header("Cache-Control: ");
>     header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
>     header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . "
> GMT");
>     header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache,
> must-revalidate");
>     header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
>     header("Content-type:
> application/csv-tab-delimited-table;");
>     header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=downloaded.csv");
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LY [mailto:heli_travel at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 07 May, 2003 9:03 AM
> > To: NYPHP Talk
> > Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP headers and Mac Machine Downloads
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I got a very interesting question. When I try to use PHP to
> > produce a dowload file, I usually use header, like this:
> > 
> > 
> > header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel;
> > charset=$dest_charset");
> > print(" " . $content); 
> > 
> > I print the very long string out with a specfic header
> > information.
> > 
> > This code works fine on windows, linux machines, but it
> doesn't
> > work for Mac. Mac will download an url instead of a excel
> file.
> > the above code, will give me aa abc.xls file on windows and
> > linux, but will give me an url, like
> > this"http://www.abc.com/app.shtml?nam=a&execid=1212" on Mac,
> and
> > I can't open it!
> > 
> > This things bother me a lot, Could some one help me out:
> > 
> > 1)Do I need to configure browser on that Mac to plug in some
> > applications?
> > 
> > 2)How to change the header to let Mac to download an excel
> file
> > with a specified name and extension instaead of a
> > url(http://www.abc.com/app.shtml?nam=a&execid=1212)
> > 
> > Thanks for your help!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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