php - Stop infinite loop in force download

While fixing a download issue related to CSV, I have added some headers that are commonly available in PHP. After, adding those I have performed a CSV export test. From that point onward in my browser, a new tab is opening & closing infinitely. I was not able to stop it by reverting the update that I have made. Cleared server & browser - cache & history. Still, the tabs are reopening while trying to export with older code. I'm now stopping the browser(Chrome) by executingsudo pkill -9 chrome on the terminal.

I think the new tab opening & closing is related to the force download code that I have added.

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
header('Content-Type: application/csv;');
header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream', false);
header('Content-Type: application/download', false);

// file creation 
$file = fopen('php://output', 'w');
$header = array("Group Name","Contact Name","Email","Phone Number","Company Name"); 
fputcsv($file, $header);
foreach ($new_array as $key => $line){ 
    fputcsv($file,$line); 
}
fclose($file); 
exit;
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$new_array is an array of data taken from DB.

I think the issue was because of the reason that I forgotten to add cache header like:

header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
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Is there any way to stop this issue?

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