Force browsers to download a file rather than open

Question

I\'m using typical PHP code to download documents:

  header(\'Content-Type: \' . $mimeTypes[$fileext]); 
  header(\'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename         


        

Answer 1

Add this to your headers:

header("Content-type: application/force-download");

Answer 2

The following php worked for me

header("Cache-Control: private");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file."");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Type: binary/octet-stream"); 
readfile ($link);

P.S. - I used the File extension in the $file variable only, so no need to mention mime type...

Hope this helps :)