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Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content

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Subject	Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content
Date	Sat, 1 Oct 2022 18:47:31 +0200
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On 01/10/2022 16.50, Tim Streater wrote:
> For those requesting that a file be downloaded from my website, having
> selected a file (a .zip or a .dmg), the following is then executed:
> 
> <font color="#000000">header('Content-Description: File Transfer');</font>
> header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename ($file) .
> '"');
> header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
> header('Expires: 0');
> header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
> header('Pragma: public');
> header('Content-Length: ' . filesize ($file));
> 
> ob_clean ();
> flush ();
> readfile ($file);
> 
> 
> For most of the files to be downloaded, this works just fine. But for one of
> them, the downloaded file has zero content at the receiver's end: it is zero
> bytes long. 

It could be a missing
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

or it could be the html in the beginning of the page that causes the 
browser to think the file data is part of the web page.


> Any suggestions as to why this might be?

If you are just doing what you paste here, I would suggest a direct link 
to the file instead.

-- 

  //Aho

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Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2022-10-01 14:50 +0000
  Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-10-01 18:47 +0200
    Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2022-10-01 19:44 +0000
      Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-10-02 00:18 +0200
      Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-10-02 12:14 +0200
        Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2022-10-02 15:57 +0000
  Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Jerry Stuckle <stuckle.jerry@gmail.com> - 2022-10-01 12:57 -0400
    Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2022-10-01 19:48 +0000
      Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Jerry Stuckle <stuckle.jerry@gmail.com> - 2022-10-01 19:13 -0400
        Re: Downloading strangeness: downloaded file has no content Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2022-10-02 16:01 +0000

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