Zend Framework how to set headers

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Uffo picture Uffo · Aug 25, 2009 · Viewed 42.3k times · Source

I have a question, how can I do something like this:

header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=result.pdf"); 
header("Content-type: application/x-pdf");

With Zend Framework, I have tried:

        $this->getResponse()
        ->setHeader('Content-Disposition:inline', ' filename=result.pdf')
        ->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-pdf');

But doesn't work correctly.

Best Regards,

Answer

Stefan Gehrig picture Stefan Gehrig · Aug 25, 2009

Your statement to set the response headers is slightly malformed:

$this->getResponse()
     ->setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'inline; filename=result.pdf')
     ->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-pdf');

The above should work - please note the difference in the Content-Disposition-header.

By the way... When you want to force a download box (instead of loading the document in the browser) you should use the Content-Disposition attachment. 

$this->getResponse()
     ->setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=result.pdf')
     ->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-pdf');

Depending on the browser it may be possible that you also have to set the Content-Length or change the Content-type to a combination (multiple headers) of one or more of application/force-download, application/octet-stream and/or application/download. And as I wrote in the comment sometimes caching headers may interfere with your download. Check to see which caching-headers are sent.

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