Wrong header sent if template caching enabled

[kixe]

Hi there,

I am using the following template file to provide a pdf download, of a pdf stored in a file-field.

<?php
$file = $page->pdf->filename;
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);

If template caching is disabled, everything working as expected and the following header is sent

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:03:27 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="anyfile.pdf"
Content-Length: 909233
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=1000
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/pdf

Using Template cache the header is overwritten by

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:06:11 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=1000
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Any ideas to prevent this?
 

[LostKobrakai]

If you're using a dedicated template (not urlSegments) you can set the content type in the template's settings. 

[kixe]

@LostKobrakai
Thanks, I know this. But this is only the Content-Type header. I want to change some others too! As a minimum: Content-Disposition and Content-Length.

[LostKobrakai]

That's probably not possible without hooking somewhere in the cache. The template cache does probably only store the content, but not any headers, which can be desired or not desired.

[kixe]

It works using wireSendFile(). New template:

<?php
/**
 * using this template allows you to use template cache
 *
 */
$file = $page->pdf->filename;
$disposition = 'inline'; // change to 'attachment' to provide download
$headers = array(    
    "content-length" => filesize($file),
    "content-disposition" => 'inline; filename="'.basename($file).'"'
);
wireSendFile($file, array('forceDownload' => false), $headers);

Define any headers to set new or overwrite default. "Force download 'must be set to false to avoid that 'Content-Disposition' is overwritten due to file extension.

But I am not sure if this uses the cache. Maybe its useless anyway it takes the same time to render.