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NajLinus
NajLinus

Reputation: 187

Cannot open PDF file downloaded using php

I am using the following php code to make pdf file download. I am able to download the pdf file but cannot open it. What I am doing wrong? Can anyone help me?

download.php

<?php
$file = 'Rev.pdf';
$filepath = "doc/" . $file;
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($filepath));
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($filepath));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($filepath);
exit;
?>

Updated:
When I try to open it after download on browser, I get following error. enter image description here

Update2:
Following is my HTML

<a href="download.php">download</a>

Update3: SOLVED
First of all I want to say sorry to make you all trouble. I have solved the issue. Actually my PDF file itself was corrupted. So I created new pdf file and it's working well. Once again thank you all for hearing my problem and giving suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9061

Answers (1)

Michael Benjamin
Michael Benjamin

Reputation: 371193

Instead of

header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=utf-8');

Try this

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');

Also review this:

Upvotes: 2

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