[ale] apache problem

[Neal Rhodes]

Yeah, that sounds familiar.  The real booger was figuring out for each
browser what it wanted to see in the headers for those various file
types. 

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 15:07 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote: 

> > It's a moderate booger to write the thing that spits back the file
> > inline, since we might have .pdf files, .html files, text files, and I
> > recall we had to do content headers appropriately.
> 
> This is fairly easy to do in PHP, and I expect other languages as well.
> 
> This is the two fragments from a bigger program that demonstrate a method.
> 
> #FRAGMENT 1
>      $file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($filename, "."), 1));
>      switch ($file_extension) {
>          case "pdf":
>              $ctype = "application/pdf";
>          break;
>          case "csv":
>              $ctype = "application/text";
>          break;
>          case "xls":
>              $ctype = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
>          break;
>          default:
>              $ctype = "application/force-download";
>      }
> 
> 
> 
> #FRAGMENT2:
> 
>      header("Pragma: public");
>      header("Expires: 0");
>      header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
>      header("Cache-Control: private", false);
>      header("Content-Type: $ctype");
>      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($as) . "\";");
>      header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
>      header("Content-Length: " . @filesize($filename));
> #    set_time_limit(20);
>      ob_clean();
>      flush();
>      @readfile("$filename") or die("File not found.");
> 
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