Question

I have a simple script that allows someone to download a movie file to their device. The code works well on everything I’ve tested except for Andriod. The Android device butchers the name and the file extension. It might call the file 2.qt or .bin. Why is this failing?

<?php

        if(isset($_GET['filename'])) {

            header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
            header('Content-Type: movie/quicktime');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
            header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
            header('Expires: 0');
            header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
            header('Pragma: public');
            header('Content-Length: ' . filesize("$file"));
            ob_clean();
            flush();
            readfile("$file"); 
    } else {
        echo "Link: <a href='test.php?filename=test.mov'>Download Video</a>";
    }
?>

Answer 1

The problem was that the filenames had spaces, and Android doesn’t like that. I removed the spaces and everything is fine.