Redirecting to FTP URL with username and password in Safari

Question

I've got a problem with Safari I haven't been able to solve:

<?php
    header("Location: ftp://username:[email protected]/somefile.zip");
?>

This code-snippet works in every browser (Fx, Chrome, IE7-9), but not in the latest Safari, which tells me that I don't have permission to view the page (that is, it redirects to the correct page [somedomain.org] with the correct protocol, but does not process the authentication data).

Interestingly it works when I copy it directly to the address bar or when I put in in an <a>-tag an click on it. Is this a Safari bug, or am I missing something here, which the other browsers ignore? And if it's a Safari bug, is there some kind of workaround?

Answer 1

Try:

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: ftp://username:[email protected]/somefile.zip');

if it doesn't work try :

echo <<< EOF
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=ftp://username:[email protected]/somefile.zip">
EOF;

Or:

header ('Location: ftp://username:[email protected]/somefile.zip');   
header ('Content-Length: 0');

The last solution I got from: http://www.ultrashock.com/forum/viewthread/90424/