[imp] Dowloading attatchments with IE...

[Patrick Timmons]

Sorry but I think you pasted twice the same HTTP: answer.

Joe Smargie wrote:
> 
>     I'm using-
>     IMP: 2.3.6
>     Apache: 1.3.9 w/PHP 4 build 5 (not using PHPLib)
>     IE 5.5 SP1 and Netscape 4.76
> 
>     I can't download things that are attatched to an email using IE. When I
> click on the attachment, I get get a blank window instead of a dialog save
> box. The code in view.php seems to be set to issue the proper headers:
> 
>     case DOWNLOAD_ATTACH:
>          /* This should force a save file dialog. */
>          header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
>          header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="' . $mime['name']
> . '"');
>          break;
> 
>     However I snooped HTTP talk going between the browser and server. The
> proper header doesn't seem to be passed out when using IE:
> 
> <request sent when I click on download link>
> HTTP: GET
> /horde/imp/view.php?mailbox=INBOX&index=55&bodypart=3&actionID=13&mime=YTo2O
> ntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO3M6MTQ6IkFETUlOMjBORVcucGRmIjt
> zOjQ6InR5cGUiO2k6MztzOjM6InN1YiI7czoxMjoib2N0ZXQtc3RyZWFtIjtzOjg6ImVuY29kaW5
> nIjtpOjM7czo3OiJpbWFwX2lkIjtzOjE6IjMiO3M6NzoiY2hhcnNldCI
> 7czo4OiJ1cy1hc2NpaSI7fQ==/ADMIN20NEW.pdf HTTP/1.1
> HTTP: Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> application/pdf, */*
> HTTP: Referer:
> http://t4.cyberc.com/horde/imp/message.php?index=55&array_index=5
> HTTP: Accept-Language: en-us
> HTTP: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> HTTP: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
> HTTP: Host: t4.cyberc.com
> HTTP: Connection: Keep-Alive
> HTTP: Cookie: chuckmIMPlang=en; Horde=d66457c9579a8e772d3da5c477bebc3e
> 
> <response from server>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> HTTP: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:35:16 GMT
> HTTP: Server: Apache/1.3.9 Ben-SSL/1.37 (Unix) PHP/4.0.2 AuthMySQL/2.20
> HTTP: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.2
> HTTP: Set-Cookie: chuckmIMPlang=en; expires=Thu, 29-Nov-01 16:35:16 GMT;
> path=/
> HTTP: Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
> HTTP: Connection: Keep-Alive
> HTTP: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> HTTP: Content-Type: text/html
> 
> But when I use netscape the server spits out the headers specified by the
> header() command in view.php
> 
> <request to server>
> HTTP: GET
> /horde/imp/view.php?mailbox=INBOX&index=55&bodypart=3&actionID=13&mime=YTo2O
> ntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO3M6MTQ6IkFETUlOMjBORVcucGRmIjt
> zOjQ6InR5cGUiO2k6MztzOjM6InN1YiI7czoxMjoib2N0ZXQtc3RyZWFtIjtzOjg6ImVuY29kaW5
> nIjtpOjM7czo3OiJpbWFwX2lkIjtzOjE6IjMiO3M6NzoiY2hhcnNldCI
> 7czo4OiJ1cy1hc2NpaSI7fQ==/ADMIN20NEW.pdf HTTP/1.0
> HTTP: Referer:
> http://t4.cyberc.com/horde/imp/message.php?index=55&array_index=5
> HTTP: Connection: Keep-Alive
> HTTP: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)
> HTTP: Host: t4.cyberc.com
> HTTP: Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
> image/png, */*
> HTTP: Accept-Encoding: gzip
> HTTP: Accept-Language: en
> HTTP: Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
> HTTP: Cookie: chuckmIMPlang=en; Horde=d3e262784e43ce662f6b7638458c9a65
> 
> <response from server>
> HTTP: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> HTTP: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:35:16 GMT
> HTTP: Server: Apache/1.3.9 Ben-SSL/1.37 (Unix) PHP/4.0.2 AuthMySQL/2.20
> HTTP: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.2
> HTTP: Set-Cookie: chuckmIMPlang=en; expires=Thu, 29-Nov-01 16:35:16 GMT;
> path=/
> HTTP: Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
> HTTP: Connection: Keep-Alive
> HTTP: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> HTTP: Content-Type: text/html
> 
> So it seems that IE is doing something that cause Apache not to send out the
> headers which are dumped into the header table using header(); in view.php.
> However the requests look ok for each of them. I know that IE is screwey and
> doesn't properly do mime, but the bottom line is people use IE and so I need
> to try and work around this somehow. Any ideas?
> 
>     A thousand thanks,
>     -Joe S.
> 
> P.S. Please do not respond with "well I tried d/l'ing attatchments with IMP
> 2.2.blah with both netscape and IE and it worked just fine. blah blah
> blah.." As I said I'm using IMP 2.3.6; I realize this is pre-alpha but it
> seems to work pretty well with the execption of this one issue.
> 
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