Re: Redirect after download

> I am writing a file download system and I need to be able to do a > redirect after the download is finished. > > Basically, the user will be presented with a simple HTML page that > contains a link to download the file (href="/download.php?fileid=143"). > I have the code to send the file working just fine, but I can not figure > out how to do a redirect after the download is complete. I have spent > the last hour searching the archives, and the closest I have found is: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=106128750620349&w=2 > > But I can't seem to find a way to actually do a Location style > redirect. Even static HTML does not display the way one would expect. > Using a small text file to download, I can "view source" from NS and see > the everything that was sent to the browser, and everything is there > (the ---Boundary(s), the text file, and the simple HTML line). > > So my question is: How can I perform a redirect after the file has been > sent. > > Thanks, > > Justin > > Here is a snippit of download.php (send_file() was found reading the > comments to the fread function in the PHP documention): > > header("Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"-Boundary-12399\""); > > if(!send_file($file)) { > die("File transfer failed!"); > exit; > }else{ > > print("\n"); > print("---Boundary-12399\r\n"); > print("Content-Type: text/html\r\n"); > print("\r\n"); > print > "<html><head><title>Success</title></head><body><b>File > transfer s > uccessful!</b></body></html>"; > print("\r\n---Boundary-12399\r\n"); > print("\r\n"); > exit; > } > > function send_file($file) { > // read file and send to user > $status = FALSE; > if ( (!is_file($file['filelocation'])) or > (connection_status()!=0) ) return(FALSE); > print("---Boundary-12399\r\n"); > print("Content-type: application/octet-stream\r\n"); > print("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"" . > $file['filename'] . "\"\r\n"); > print("Content-length: " . $file['filesize'] . "\r\n"); > print("Expires: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", > mktime(date("H")+2, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), > date("d"), > date("Y") ) ) . " GMT\r\n"); > print("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." > GMT\r\n"); > //print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate\r\n"); > //print("Pragma: no-cache\r\n"); > if ($fh = fopen($file['filelocation'], 'rb')) { > while(!feof($fh) and (connection_status()==0)) { > print(fread($fh, 1024*8)); > flush(); > } > $status = (connection_status()==0); > fclose($fh); > } > return($status); > } How about go directly to the site where you want to locate and make there the file downloadable... ?