Question

I am using php to show the pdf

@readfile($actualfilename);
                        header('Content-type:pdf');      
                   header('Content-Disposition: inline');
                   header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
                   header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($actualfilename));
                   header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');

the problem is on the tittle bar it shows

and when I use

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

it prompts me to download the file and the same problem appears when I use

header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename='.$fakefilename.'');

This code shows pdf file in only firefox. I.E,chrome prompts me to download file?

Answer 1

Are you trying to change the browser’s title bar text (or wherever it shows the file name)?

If so, you’re out of luck here, because that won’t work as it’s up to the browser to decide how/where (if at all) show the file name.

However, there’s some possible workaround: You could use server side tools, such as mod_rewrite in an Apache environment to redirect a request like download/readme.pdf behind the scenes to readfile.php?file=readme.pdf. In this case the browser won’t know about the hidden rewrite and it will in fact display readme.pdf as the file name (even if the real file name or the script’s name on the server side are different).