Hi!

I am developing a document manager that lets people view files hosted on a web server.

What Headers and functions do I need to send to make the browser download the file, and then display it?

The file could be in either JPEG or text format.

Thanks!

You can use the header() function to sent the content type of the response. You can't force a browser to open the File Download dialog box -- in fact, if the browser knows how to display something inside it, it will. This includes most plain-text output, images, and (depending on your media player settings) songs and video.

look at header():
  http://www.php.net/header

Simple search on google got me this list o' mime types you can send with an HTTP content-type header:
  http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/xht.../mimetype.html



Take care,

Nik
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