RE: Download with IE

[John W. <jw...@ne...>]

I was able to get the downloads working fine in IE by upgrading to the
latest build of PHP4 (which I got from http://snaps.php.net) and then making
the following small change at the top of src/download.php

I added:

if ($absolute_dl=true) {  // quick hack to allow IE to download
session_cache_limiter('private');
}

right before:

if (!isset($page_header_php))
   include("../functions/page_header.php");

In my few minutes of testing this seems to allow IE to download attachments
just fine.  Note that you need a fairly recent beta of PHP4 to get the
session_cache_limiter() function.

I'm not an HTTP protocol whiz, so I really don't know what the side effects
of this hack might be, and this depends upon $absolute_dl being passed in
the URL.  If someone else can shed some light that'd be great.  Also, I
haven't tested this with any browsers other than IE5.

--JW


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squ...@li...
> [mailto:squ...@li...]On Behalf Of John
> Williams
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:01 PM
> To: squ...@li...
> Subject: RE: Download with IE
>
>
> > I got two gripes with the session mechanism currently, one is
> the magical
> > Expires: and other headers that are automatically inserted. The other
> > is the inability to control cookies on a per-call basis. I
> already showed
> > what I did to get around the extra headers.
>
> Hey, I just noticed something:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/function.session-cache-limiter.php
>
> would that help?  Sorry, I'm still learning PHP's functions and I haven't
> tried that call yet myself.  It'd be great if there was an
> argument to that
> function that just skipped the expire header..
>
> --JW
>
>