hello,
you could "start from the end" :)
show the nice page saying "THANKS!!" or something and this page will
call the download script itself with "meta refresh=..." in the <head>
...can't remember the meta refresh syntax right now :)
hope it works,
Nuno
Vikram Vaswani wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am working on a script which locates a file on the system and then tells
> the browser to pop open the "Save As" dialog box for download. In order to
> do this, I am using the following code:
>
> $filename = $dataDir . $id . ".dat";
> header ("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
> header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
> readfile($filename);
>
> This works fine - however, I would like to redirect the browser to another
> page once the download is complete (or once it starts). I have tried adding a
>
> header("Location:next.php")
>
> line to the end of the script above, but it has no effect whatsoever (after
> the download is complete, the browser displays an hourglass as though
> waiting for something). Do I need to send some kind of "end-of-download"
> header...or something else?
>
> Can anyone suggest some possible solutions to this problem?
>
> Please CC a copy of your response to
>
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>
> as well as the list (as I will be working on this @ home also and do not
> have access to the full digest there)
>
> Any help will be much appreciated. TIA,
>
> Vikram Vaswani
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