forcing upload of files

works, but not via https

[louponne]

I have set up a php script that forces upload of an excel file by the user, thus:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=data_".date("d-m-y").".xls");
header('Cache-Control: public');
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
echo $thedata;

This works perfectly, except when I move the script to my secure connection. At that point, Firefox will download the file, but IE says it doesn't fine it.

Any ideas?

[jatar_k]

Do you actually mean download?

I have a script that forces the download of a csv file
Good PHP solutions to small problems [webmasterworld.com] msg 9

take a look at those headers, they should help

[louponne]

oh, gag - yes of course I meant download, thanks jatar.

I checked my and your scripts line by line, and this is the one that did it for me:
header("Pragma: public");

Thanks! :)

On the other hand, when I tried your complete script, it rendered the file in-browser for me. I had to change

header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $output_file . '"');

to

header('Content-Disposition: attached; filename="' . $output_file . '"');