Re[2]: [PHP] Delivering large files via PHP (>300MB)

Hello Greg, Monday, December 13, 2004, 9:42:30 PM, you wrote: GD> Use set_time_limit(0); to prevent the timeout. ignore_user_abort() is GD> pretty handy too. Yeah, I have the time-out limit in there already (the client end will detect for a time-out from the server as well). GD> If that doesn't work you might give them authenticated http access GD> with temporary passwords. You can have the usernames and passwords GD> in a db and pass the proper auth headers with PHP. I did think of this, and it gets around a few issues, but if they are not running any software to manage the download, and are not using a decent browser (ala FireFox) we still hit the same "cannot resume" problem should the download abort. >> I'm also aware that it's not such a hot idea to lock-up Apache for >> the time it takes to download the whole file, especially with a >> large number of users doing this. GD> Apache 2 is pretty good with multiple threads from what I hear. I use GD> it but not in a production environment. Most of our servers run 1.3 - which is perfectly good, no complaints there, it's just HTTP itself was never even really designed for extremely large file downloads, so I am wary of any single server+browser solution. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde