title: symfony - download files
body: <p>I am trying download files in controller but in the console I see only really bunch of weird characters instead of download box. I am following this topic <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13010411/symfony2-force-file-download">Symfony2 - Force file download</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Don't know what is going on... trying to find simplest solution. 
  Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> $response = new Response(file_get_contents($file-&gt;realPath), 200, array(
              'Content-Type' =&gt; $file-&gt;mimeType,
              'Content-Length' =&gt; filesize($file-&gt;realPath),
              'Content-Disposition' =&gt; 'attachment; filename=' . $file-&gt;name,
          ));
   $response-&gt;send();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've even tried to use the most basic example with header() and readfile().
  Does my server need special config or something? Cheers.</p>