[thelist] Blank messages ?

[Andy Warwick]

Apologies for the off topic post, but I've paid with a tip...

Is anyone else getting blank messages from the list along with the normal
traffic?

The latest example was sent at 2002/08/11 09:28 pm, and had a blank subject
line, no readable internet headers and the text:

> Sincerely,
> Kid Stevens
>
> "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

And that was it - the sum total of the message.

Client: Entourage 10.1.0 on OS X 10.1.5

Andy W

<tip type="PHP Headers key to force download in IE on a secure server"
author="Andy Warwick">
Having set up a site to dynamically create reports that the user could
download, and having it work fine in testing, only to break when it got
moved to a secure server, I found the problem was a combination of SSL,
sessions, and the headers being sent; IE needs extra headers The final
solution was the following:

<?php
        $file = $_GET['file'] ;
        $download_dir = DOWNLOAD_DIR ;
        $download_file = $download_dir . $file ;
        ob_end_clean(); // clear the buffer
        // this is what stops the error
        if ( ereg ( "MSIE" , $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) )
        {
            header ( 'Pragma: ' ) ;
            header ( 'Cache-Control: cache' );
        }
        header ( 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' ) ; // text/plain
        header ( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$file ) ;
        header ( "Content-Length: ".filesize ( $download_file ) ) ;
        header ( "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary" ) ;
        $fh = fopen( $download_file , "r" ) ;
        fpassthru( $fh ) ;
?>
</tip>