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

Hello Richard, Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 12:02:19 AM, you wrote: RL> This sounds an awful lot like various web installers. Sure, there's nothing unique about the concept. The aim was to reduce to load on the web server and make things a little easier for the end user. You can code Install Shield to download from a site before installing (which a lot of programs do), but it doesn't solve the server side solution in this respect. RL> It's likely that there are pre-existing applications "out there" to do the RL> same thing as yours. Yes, but not branded to my needs and I dare say not as compact either. RL> They might even support interrupted downloads better, or have other RL> features worth investigating. The app I built supports interrupted downloads perfectly. RL> It would be worth your time, maybe, to investigate them. I'd suggest RL> starting with the traditional installer software vendors whose name you RL> always see when you install software. That would lock us into a platform specific environment too :) You don't run an Install Shield web delivery system by executing the setup file on a Mac just because you're at work and can burn it to CD :) I was more interested in comments re: the PHP side of things anyway - is it better to be spitting out 1MB segments and then letting the process finish and Apache free-up that httpd session, or does it make no difference to PHP or memory load, etc and we can just blast out 300MB+ files regardless. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde