download as archive in firefox not getting full file name

Question

I am using ZipArchive library for downloading contents as archive. The problem is that the archived file not getting full name that as given, its ending at first space. eg: if i am giving the file name as "new file.zip"

header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename = new file.zip');

While googling i found that just putting the quoted file name solves the problem. So i tried this:

header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename = 'new file.zip'");

but nothing changes, while downloading the file name changes to "new.zip", what i have to get is "new file.zip"

The problem is only with firefox

Answer 1

Set the content type as application/zip, application/octet-stream before you make the file download and include the filename in double quotes.

// We'll be outputting a ZIP
header('Content-Type: application/zip, application/octet-stream');

// It will be called new file.zip
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="new file.zip"');

If you pass the variable filename, that could have spaces:

header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" . $fileName ."\"");

Note that the filename is surrounded by double quotes, per RFC 2231. This allows for the use of extended characters within the filename (i.e., international characters).