How to Automatically Start a Download in PHP?

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Send the following headers before outputting the file:

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . basename($File) . "\"");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Length: " . filesize($File));
header("Connection: close");

@grom: Interesting about the ‘application/octet-stream’ MIME type. I wasn’t aware of that, have always just used ‘application/force-download’ 🙂

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