Re: Redirect after download

have you considered attempting to use header("Location: ".$URL); where $URL contains the URL AFTER putting ob_start(); at the top of the php file? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin England" <justin@rapidcity.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:07 AM Subject: [PHP] 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);
       }

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