Re: file downloads (again)

Hi John, Thanks for the reply. I'd say the lack of passthru() was one of my many problems :) I don't have access to dirs outside the web root, but I do have the ability to add .htaccess files, so I'll be able to refuse direct requests to the files. The fact that I can't send the file as an "attachment" WHILE sending the HTML page puzzles me a bit, because *exactly that* happens on download.com... You click on "download now", and you get a new HTML page, and a compressed file comes through to you with a download window about 1-3 seconds later. Maybe it's the compressed file that's the key???? Thanks, Justin French on 17/06/02 6:52 PM, John Holmes (holmes072000@charter.net) wrote: > You're sending a application/octet-stream header and an HTML header at > the same time... I don't see where your sending any file data, but > that's just a snippet of code, though. In order to send the file to the > browser, you have to set the application/octet-stream header, then do > something like passthru($filename). That's it. You can't do that and > HTML at the same time, though. > > Also note that if you're storing your mp3 inside of your web directory, > anyone can just type in the URL to it and download whatever they want. > You should be storing them outside of the web root.