Laravel 5 file downloads invalid

Question

When using Response::download to download files, I noticed that images and other binary files were being transferred incorrectly.

Changing the Content-Type header didn't change anything, nor did explicitly disallowing cache or forcing the content's length.

What may be the cause of this problem?

Answer 1

The solution to this problem can be found here:

http://simpledeveloper.com/how-to-fix-laravel-response-image-download-in-laravel/

The cause of the issue was due to Laravel/Symfony not properly cleaning the output buffer for some reason, so the solution is this:

$response = Response::download($path, ...);
ob_end_clean();

return $response;