What you are seeing in the browser IS the zip file. The PK blah bit is the standard zip header - have a look at a zip file with a text editor.

Anyway the reason you see the file as a text file is because you script is not sending a header your browser understands or your browser does not know how to deal with application/zip MIME type and defaults to text. Depending on how you look at it.

Change the header type sent by your script to 'application/octet-stream' and it should work fine. If not get a decent browser. What are you using?

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: question about a reply to the Zip::Archive post by tachyon
in thread question about a reply to the Zip::Archive post by Anonymous Monk

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