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musashi
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IE Mac header problems

Post by musashi »

Okay, I realize that people have talked about this before :oops:

But I really need to know if anyone has any ideas on how to solve the old "Internet Explorer doesn't recognize the header information correctly" problem for the Mac (OS X) IE Version 5.2

The issue is, I'm using the header("Location: http://blah.com/me.pdf"); function which does correctly redirect the user. However it does not cause IE to properly see the file as a .pdf file during the download.

I have tried things like:

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// Date in the past
			header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

			// always modified
			header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
 
			// HTTP/1.1
			header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
			header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
and nothing seems to work. Now on every other browser on every other OS there are no problems. Only IE on Mac. I've even attempted downloading the file on the the local server, and then sending up the content with the headers... still no luck.

Considering that my bosses are on Mac's I can't just use the old argument "It is IE on a Mac... so..."

Any thoughts?

arigatou gozaimasu!!!
m3rajk
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Post by m3rajk »

tell them to use a browser that knows something called a standard


ok... seriously, all i can say is that unless ther'es something on microsoft on how to oveeercome the issue, then it's probalby futile. which means you need to find a way around it
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