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What happens if you link to the same WMV file without the headers?
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Do you mean just using:<br />
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readfile($Dfile);<br />
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without the preceding headers?<br />

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No, I mean &lt;a href=&quot;yoursite.com/your.wm<wbr />v&quot;&gt;Your WMV&gt;/a&gt; . &nbsp;A plain link so that the PHP isn't in the way.
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Its Streams to Windows Media Player doesn't bring up a save as dialog box.
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Ok, that shows that is accessible on the web site. &nbsp;Which browser are you using and can you try it in Firefox or Chrome? &nbsp;I ask because opening in Windows Media Player would be the default in Internet Explorer but not necessarily in the others.
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I have tried the script on IE, Firefox &amp;&nbsp;Safari and all of them just die. But if I were to try one of the other file like mp3 or jpg it brings up the save as dialog box for all 3 browsers.
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Try one of the simpler versions on this page: <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php</a>&nbsp; Also if your WMV file name has a space in it, you might want to modify the line with the filename so that the filname is enclosed in double quotes like below.<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-8170301"><span>header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=&quot;'.basename($file).'&quot;');</span>
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Im new to PHP so do you mean use something like this:<br />
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header(&quot;Location: <a href="http://www.example.com/test.wmv" rel="ugc">http://www.example.com/test.wmv</a>&quot;);
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No. &nbsp;If you look at the &quot;Content-Disposition:&quot; header you have, you will see that the filename could have spaces in it and be misinterpreted if it is not quoted. &nbsp;I added double quotes to your line above. &nbsp;If your original filename does not have spaces in it, it doesn't matter.
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No the original file name does not have spaces in it. I have tried multiple wmv files and none of them have spaces in the file name.
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Im trying to write a PHP script that will allow the downloading of Windows Media Video files (.wmv) I came up with this:<br />
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header('Content-Descriptio<wbr />n: File Transfer');<br />
header(&quot;Content-type: application/force-download<wbr />&quot;); &nbsp;<br />
header(&quot;Content-type: video/x-ms-wmv&quot;); <br />
header('Content-Dispositio<wbr />n: attachment; filename='.basename($file)<wbr />);<br />
header('Content-Transfer-E<wbr />ncoding: binary');<br />
header('Expires: 0');<br />
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');<br />
header('Pragma: public');<br />
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));<br />
ob_clean();<br />
flush();<br />
readfile($Dfile);<br />
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The problem is that it will bring up a save as dialog box for anything else but .wmv files. I was ale to download a .mp3 and .jpg etc... but for some reason .wmv will not come up it just dies. Can anyone help me with this, maybe tell me what Im missing?
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Im trying to write a PHP script that will allow the downloading of Windows Media Video files (.wmv) I came up with this:

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-type: application/force-download");  
header("Content-type: video/x-ms-wmv"); 
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($Dfile);

The problem is that it will bring up a save as dialog box for anything else but .wmv files. I was ale to download a .mp3 and .jpg etc... but for some reason .wmv will not come up it just dies. Can anyone help me with this, maybe tell me what Im missing?

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