Problem Downloading zip file from Internet Explorer

[DanceCharter]

Hi,

I am also having trouble with ie8. I have just purchased e-store version 4.9.2. Every person I can think of who has ie8 has the same issue, although the download works beautifully on Firefox.

If I try to download a PDF I can do this on both IE and Firefox.

If I try to download a zip file, then it works fine on Firefox, but on IE8 I get the following error:

Unable to download download.php from http://www.mysite.com

Unable to open this Internet site. The requested site is either not available or cannot be found. Please try again later.

I am not using any cache plugins on this site.

If you could assist I would be most grateful.

Thanks.

[amin007]

This usually happens if your server is having an issue with the mimetype. Please open the “download.php” file from the eStore’s directory and search for the following line:

header("Content-Type: ".$mimetype);

once you find this line please remove it and try a download (there will be a few occurrences so remove them all). Let me know how the download goes on IE after this.

[josephi]

If anyone is still having trouble with this I found a solution. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if this is contingent on my particular server setup or not.

Anyway, all you need to do is edit download.php and set the download method to 6.

* comment out line 158

* underneath line 158 add the following line $eStore_dl_method = 6;

That’s the quick and dirty way anyway, there might be a more elegant solution.

[JustinPGH]

Unfortunately (at least for me) amin007’s solution causes the download not to work on Macs and josephi’s code change breaks it in Firefox.

Any other ideas on this?

[wzp]

How about this?

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/force-a-file-to-download-instead-of-showing-up-in-the-browser

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/estore-amazon-s3-problems-and-multiple-file-download

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