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May 1st, 2002, 04:47 AM

anky

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setting content type

Hi
i have a small problem.I have to show a Ms word Document in the internet explorer browser.
even if i have
Header("Content Type:application/ms-word");
ie is not working.
can anybody suggest me a solution?or else my PL will....
anky

May 1st, 2002, 05:44 PM

mytch

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Hi,
You're actually missing a hyphen, so it should read:

header("Content-type: application/ms-word");

that should fix it

May 2nd, 2002, 09:22 AM

anky

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i have already done that

hi admin
sorry that i missed out the hyphen here but its there in my code.Content type setting will show my doc in the browser with msword embedded in it....right. even if i have the file written in html format embedded in the php script it is not getting converted. again, if i do areadfile("filename"); after the content type is declared.
just tell me if i have a file x uploaded in my apache what will be the small code for it.
thanx
anky

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