[FX.php List] [OFF] Trouble with clients trying to download DOCX files from web server

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

You probably need to tamper with the header data, if this goes through php

or if this is not related to php, they probably have to register the
.docx mimetype in their browser.

ggt

2007/12/30, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>:
> I've got a client whose site users upload text files, and then the
> client downloads them and processes them.
>
> When they try to download '.docx' files, the file actually opens in
> the client's browser, and in the browsers of others. He uses Safari
> with Mac OS 10.4.8, but his fellow workers are on PCs.
>
> I'm in Leopard and not having that trouble.
>
> The server is running OS X Server Tiger; is there a setting somewhere
> that would stop this and force the file to download rather than open?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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