php being downloaded in IE

[ricmetal]

hi,
ive installed the example zip file and changed all the ocurrences of application/json to text/plain
but IE still wants to download the php upload file, on upload complete.

is this not a fixed issue?

regards

[sclormu]

current issue :

#212

I've the same problem...

[blueimp]

I've just updated the provided PHP Upload Handler example with the following changes:

• Add "no-cache" and "Vary: Accept" headers to the POST response.
• Vary content-type header based on the Accept header instead of X-Requested-With.

I suspect this issue might have something to do with proxy caching or generally with caching and hopefully, these new settings will fix the IE8 download dialog issue some users experience.

[ricmetal]

still downloading the file here
im on IE7
the upload hangs, but the file uploads.

[ricmetal]

udpated to v5,
blueimp, you mention that we should use the Content-Type Negotiation snippet to address this issues.
i am a total newb.
where do i add the snippet?
thanks

[blueimp]

The example code already includes the Content-type negotiation snippet.
Since this doesn't seem to fix the issue on your server setup I can only conclude this is a server configuration issue.
I can only fix issues that I can reproduce and there is no such problem on the demo page or on my tests with the provided example code on my local Apache+PHP setup.

[sclormu]

I have this problem on my local Apache (wampServer Apache 2.2.11 php 5.3) and on my server, but your demo works perfectly... :(

[ricmetal]

i am running the plugin on a webhost, so i did not configure it. just fyi.

1. will running the tests found in the tests folder in the example pack give a clue to why the plugin wont work properly, in the case im having?
2. and the phpinfo from the server, can that give a clue?
3. could you help?

thanks

[blueimp]

To see if the tests run through is always a good idea.
phpinfo is not really that helpful without knowing what to look for.
If your server is publicly accessible I might take a look.

[ricmetal]

thanks

running the tests in FireFox, occasionally i get two errors:
running the tests in IE, i get a download prompt for the upload php file:

regarding the server being publicly accessible, how do i check if it is accessible?
my website is at:

thanks again

[blueimp]

DELETE requests are forbidden on your server, so you will have to either fix this or use another HTTP method for file deletion.

However, regarding the original issue, I uploaded files with IE7+IE8 to your server and did not encounter a download dialog. The same result when running all 60 unit tests with those browsers.

So, to conclude:

• Nobody has the IE-download-dialog issue on the demo page.
• Some users encounter this issue on their own server setups, e.g. your provided example.
• I couldn't reproduce this issue with my IE installations, neither on my server-setups nor on yours.

Looks like this issue is a combination of server-configuration + browser-setup or network/proxy issues.
Seems like you get a different response on your IE installation than I did from the same server.

Since I cannot reproduce it, I can't fix it.
I suggest you team up with other users encountering this issue so you might be able to solve it as a group.

[ricmetal]

thanks
regards

[blueimp]

I'm reopening so other users with the same issue can find it.

[blueimp]

@sclormu:
No download dialog issues in my tests with IE8 (Windows XP) on your server.

I still suspect this has something to do with proxy caches. I've committed another update that adds the Pragma:no-cache header to account for HTTP 1.0 proxy caches.

Let me know if this changes anything (though it might take a while until the proxy caches are updated).