force to download zip from server is not working

Question

I have tried to download file from server using below code but it not downloaded. It shows only content in browser

<?php

if(file_exists($zipName))
{

    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\'Uttam_Solanki.zip\'');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipName));
    readfile($zipName);
    exit;

}

?>

@Shank: irrelevant. the browser only uses filename extensions in urls to GUESS what the type might be if the content-type header isn't present. most likely OP has "headers already sent" warnings, and is running with debug output disabled. — Marc B, Jul 26 '16 at 19:01

Neelam Prajapati · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28T07:39:20.623

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you need to change role in .htaccess

add application/octet-stream zip

edited Jul 28 '16 at 07:39

answered Jul 28 '16 at 07:21

Neelam Prajapati

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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your content-type must be `application/zip

here is a similar approach:

send zip file to browser / force direct download

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Jul 26 '16 at 18:59

Miad Abrin

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that just tells the browser it's a zip file. if you want to force a download, you want to use a mime-type that's NOT likely to have a handler on the user's computer, and/or use a content-disposition header. – Marc B Jul 26 '16 at 19:01
I have tried Content-type:application/zip but not working – codever Jul 26 '16 at 19:02
here is the answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7470846/send-zip-file-to-browser-force-direct-download . you seriously have issues downvoting what you don't understand – Miad Abrin Jul 26 '16 at 19:07
i have tried above same questions method but i only content in browser like given in link – codever Jul 26 '16 at 19:17
can you send the headers you receive from browser? – Miad Abrin Jul 26 '16 at 19:18
@MiadAbrin my header is Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 Cache-Control no-cache Connection keep-alive Host Pragma no-cache Referer User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0 – codever Jul 26 '16 at 19:29
I mean the response headers – Miad Abrin Jul 26 '16 at 19:31
@MiadAbrin keep-alive Content-Length 329673 Content-Type text/html Date Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:44:47 GMT Keep-Alive timeout=30 Server Apache/2 X-Powered-By PHP/5.5.22 – codever Jul 26 '16 at 19:45
As you can see your content type is not correct. I think you should debug you code for any notices or warnings and check you apache rules – Miad Abrin Jul 26 '16 at 19:49

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '16 at 07:43

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How are you triggering this script?

If by link, maybe using download attribute would help?

answered Jul 28 '16 at 07:43

Krzysztof Atłasik

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