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Hi,

I also experience this problem.

I am running PHP 4.2.3 on FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE, with Apache 1.3.27. I have tested this with IE 6.0.2600.0000, running on Windows 2000 server SP2.

The following code works for me:

<?php
$dlfile = "./temp.zip";
header("Content-Type: application/download-script-by-hex\n");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$dlfile\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
?>

But, fails as soon as I add session_start().

<?php
session_start();
$dlfile = "./temp.zip";
        header("Content-Type: application/download-script-by-hex\n");
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$dlfile\"");
        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
?>


Also, in lynx (FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE) I can download the file, but, I get a 4 byte Ascii file, the spaces. 

When I remove the session_start(), I get a Ascii file that is 10 bytes bigger than the origional, the new file also filled with spaces.

Am I just missing something here, or is this a bug ?

Thank you.
Regards
Jaco van Tonder

for the original report: you just can't have session stuff
and Location: redirects in the same script, the headers
interfere and confuse browsers ... not a php bug :(

for the latest addition: this is something different,
please verify if it also happens with session.trans_sid=0
in php.ini and create a new report for it

Well, it's OK if it's so, thanks for your information!

But I still didn't get the idea why I can't have session and header Location:in the same script. Does session send such a header Location: too so that the next header Location, which I called after, might confuse the browser?

Thanks for your attention.

Regards,

mahara

I don't think it's a PHP bug. I've added variables to the session and then issued header redirect and haven't had any problems with it on the last couple vesions of PHP. 

As for the second problem, try changing the session.cache-limiter flag in your php.ini. Sessions send a nocache header which will, with IE under SSL, cause the browser to give an error saying it can't locate the file for download. 

---John Holmes...