CSV download not working for IE7 and SSL and a possible solution

Fixed.

Hi All ,

I have one working solution for this problem.

we dont have to make any drupal code changes here and there.

just work in the drupal way.

first create a new menu for download page.

like this...

$items[] = array(
'path' => 'addressbook/download',
'callback' => 'download_addressbook',
'access' => user_access('manage addressbook'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);

after that create your function which will gather the download data and store it in a $_SESSION variable
function yourfunction()
{
$_SESSION['filearray']['data'] = $csvString; //your data
$_SESSION['filearray']['name'] = "address_book.csv"; //'filename for download'
$_SESSION['filearray']['mime'] = "text/csv"; /'mime type'
$_SESSION['filearray']['size'] = strlen($csvString); //length of the data

after storing data in session just redirct to that page

header('location:?addressbook/download');
die();
}

function download_addressbook()
{
if(isset($_SESSION['filearray']['data']) && trim($_SESSION['filearray']['data'])!="")
{
force_download($_SESSION['filearray']['data'],$_SESSION['filearray']['name'],$_SESSION['filearray']['mime'],$_SESSION['filearray']['size']);
}
else
{
header('location:?q=addressbook/view');
die();
}
}

function force_download ($data, $name, $mimetype='', $filesize=false) {
// File size not set?
if ($filesize == false OR !is_numeric($filesize)) {
$filesize = strlen($data);
}

// Mimetype not set?
if (empty($mimetype)) {
$mimetype = 'application/octet-stream';
}

// Make sure there's not anything else left
// ob_clean_all();

// Start sending headers
header("Pragma: public"); // required
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false); // required for certain browsers
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Type: " . $mimetype);
header("Content-Length: " . $filesize);
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" . $name . "\";" );

// Send data
echo $data;
die();
}

thanks regards
Rajesh

This was fixed in May, but it seems the update hasn't been released in a stable version yet?

I think this fix should do it (seems to work for me to prevent issues with download on IE6/IE7)

I applied this patch and I'm still having trouble on this issue.

The patch did return with 1 error out of 2 HUNKS...?

It produced a views_bonus_export.module.rej file that states

***************
*** 182,187 ****
      }
      $output .= implode(',', $values) . "\r\n";
    }
    drupal_set_header('Content-Type: text/x-comma-separated-values');
    drupal_set_header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="view-'. $view->name .'.csv"');
    print $output;
--- 182,188 ----
      }
      $output .= implode(',', $values) . "\r\n";
    }
+   drupal_set_header('Cache-Control: max-age=60, must-revalidate');
    drupal_set_header('Content-Type: text/x-comma-separated-values');
    drupal_set_header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="view-'. $view->name .'.csv"');
    print $output;

@steingard - here's the same patch for 5.x-1.2alpha2 - please try this instead and report back if it works?

The patch file worked nicely, thanks!

Something that is important to remember... is to setup the Views Export permissions properly (in addition to the View's perms).

This patch needs to find its way into the contributed module.

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