FW: [PHP] PHP Timeout and Long Download

To the list as well in case anyone is interested too? -----Original Message----- From: Krznaric Michael Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:26 PM To: 'Robert J. Cissell'; Krznaric Michael Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP Timeout and Long Download Sure. As an intro i'm using a single script that parses the request URL and sends the files accordingly. http://mysite.com/dynamic/some/path/file.ext ^^^^^^^ dynamic is my script name. It then parses the $PATH_INFO (the stuff following my script name) to find out which file it needs to send. I have to map it to my file system. O.k. Now that you know this (which you probably didn't need to know, just in case). I have a function called GetMimeType which searches the /apache/conf/mime.types file and gets the appropriate mime type for the extension (.ext)(The stuff that goes in the header). Then all i do is $Type=GetMimeType($Extension, $Mime_Types); if (!is_string($Type)){ print ("ERROR $Type: Cannot get Mime Type for $Extension"); exit; } else { header ("Content-Length: ".filesize ($MapTo)); header ("Content-Type: ".$Type); $fd=fopen ($MapTo, "r"); fpassthru ($fd); fclose ($fd); } That's. It it should work for you. If you're always sending the same type of file you don't need to search for the mime type, you can just hardcode it. If you look at your mime.types in your apache/conf directory you need to send the first part of the line as the header (which is what my script retrieves with GetMimeType). And off course $MapTo is the location of the file you want to send. Let me know if you need any more info. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Cissell [mailto:rcissell@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:09 PM To: Krznaric Michael Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Timeout and Long Download Hey, I don't know the answer for your question, but could you share with me how you sent the files? I've been trying with headers but it's not working at all. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krznaric Michael" <mkrznaric@rand.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:10 PM Subject: [PHP] PHP Timeout and Long Download > I am using php to send some files to the user. If the user download is > taking longer than the script timeout will that affect the download? I > mean, will the script be killed before the download is complete or does the > script execution end and it's the OS job to deliver the file? > > > Michael Krznaric > RAND Worldwide > Webmaster > 905-625-2000 x 2325 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >