[pmwiki-users] action=download saving corrupted files

[Christophe David]

>> This may happen if you have PHP files with a closing "?>" marker at the
end, and some text or white space after it.

This was it !

Thank you so much Petko !

Christophe



On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 10:46, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:

> On 27/02/2023 10:26, Christophe David wrote:
> > I have been using PmWiki  since 2005 and still love it.
> >
> > For a few weeks now (I cannot correlate this to anything), the
> > downloads of binary files using action=download result in corrupted
> > files (for example .zip files cannot be read).
> >
> > Same issue using Chrome or Firefox, on Linux or Windows.
> >
> > Downloading files directly from the server (outside PmWiki directories)
> > does not corrupt the files.
>
> There might be some warning or error message before the file content. To
> see the message, try downloading a plain text file and look at it. On
> Linux, you can peek into the ZIP file with `less -L file.zip`, agree to
> view the binary file and look at the first few characters or lines,
> before the string "PK^C".
>
> Alternatively, some recipe or local configuration may output something
> before the file. This may happen if you have PHP files with a closing
> "?>" marker at the end, and some text or white space after it. It is
> recommended to remove these closing markers from your local and cookbook
> files.
>
> See PmWiki:Troubleshooting on how to track the source for the
> errors/warnings.
>
> Petko
>
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