[Xerte] Headers

[Paul Swanson]

I can't say that I understand much about headers, but there is a wealth
of information at this page:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

Maybe you can make some sense of it.

Cheers,
Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:00 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Headers
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In toolkits, in the download functions (export and scorm), the php
code
> is thus
> 
> header("Content-Length: " . strlen($this->archive));
> header("Pragma: public");
> header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name .
> '.zip"');
> header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
> pre-check=0");
> header("Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT");
> header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
> print($this->archive);
> 
> which is what we release in the zip
> 
> however, I've just been tinkering and found that it doesn't work, and
I
> have to set it to
> 
> header("Content-Length: " . strlen($this->archive));
> header("Pragma: public");
> header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name .
> '.zip"');
> //header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
> pre-check=0");
> //header("Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT");
> header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
> print($this->archive);
> 
> to make it work.
> 
> Any one understand what this does differently and care to let me know?
> 
> Merci
> 
> Patrick Lockley
> IS Learning Team
> King's Meadow Campus
> Tel: 0115 84 68882
> 
> My Page on Community - http://webapps.nottingham.ac.uk/elgg/cczpl
> 
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