Forced download not working in IE6

Hi, i am using this script to force a .csv or .txt file to download. It works great in Firefox, but somehow
IE6 doesn't want it. I'll get a message saying it can't download the file as IE can't open the website.

It's on ssl.

Anyone with idea's on this?

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function download($path, $name = null, $type = 'binary/octet-stream')
{
      if (headers_sent()) {
            echo 'File download failure: HTTP headers have already been sent and cannot be changed.';
            exit;
      }
      $path = realpath($path);
      if ($path === false || !is_file($path) || !is_readable($path)) {
            header('HTTP/1.0 204 No Content');
            exit;
      }
      $name = (empty($name)) ? basename($path) : $name;
      $size = filesize($path);
      header('Expires: Mon, 20 May 1974 23:58:00 GMT');
      header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
      header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate');
      header('Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false);
      header('Cache-Control: private');
      header('Pragma: no-cache');
        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
      header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
      header("Content-type: {$type}");
      header("Content-length: {$size}");
      header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$name}\"");
      readfile($path);
      
      exit;
}
   
    $File = "1_export.txt";
   download($File);
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