Re: [? BUG ?] weird thing; downloading from a php script stops at exactly 2.000.000 bytes

Check out the readfile manual page. Someone made a user-contributed comment about that. As it happens they came up with pretty much the same solution as I did. On 6/10/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> wrote: > Hi, > > It can't be a memory limit problem. The server ha 2GB memory, > and in PHP each script can consume up to 64MB. On php4, apache 1.3 and > same configs readfile works without fread tricks. > > C. > > > Rory Browne wrote: > > It's probably something to do with maximum memory, or something like > > that, but taking into account that your method is stretching the > > resources, fopen/fread may be a better solution. > > > > I'd be curious to see the benchmarked differences - but couldn't be > > bothered at this minute doing the benchmarking atm. > > > > On 6/10/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Tried it and it works indeed, but it's quite annoying to make such tricks > >>and is not the best solution either; fopen and fread are "expensive". > >> I can't say if it's a bug in PHP or some config option. > >> > >> > >>C. > >> > >> > >>Rory Browne wrote: > >> > >>>I've never came across that problem, but try this > >>> > >>>function output_file($filename){ > >>>$fp = fopen($filename, "r"); > >>>while(!feof($fp)){ > >>> echo fread($fp, 1024000); > >>>} > >>>} > >>> > >>>On 6/9/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I installed php5 using the configue below. I tried with apache2 as well and > >>>> same things. > >>>> > >>>>'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/php5' > >>>>'--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--disable-cgi' > >>>>'--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5' '--with-dom' > >>>>'--with-gd' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-exif' > >>>>'--with-freetype2' > >>>>'--with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' > >>>>'--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-curl' > >>>>'--with-curlwrappers' '--enable-ftp' '--with-mysql=/usr' > >>>>'--with-xsl' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' > >>>> > >>>> I have a script which generates a temporary catalog file, which is generated > >>>> correctly having > >>>>4.7MB on disk. > >>>> Then I push up the wire with readfile($filname): > >>>> > >>>> header("Content-Type: text/csv"); > >>>> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; > >>>> filename=somfilename.csv"); > >>>> header("Content-Length: ". filesize($file)); > >>>> > >>>> readfile($file); > >>>> > >>>> I also tried with fopen. > >>>> If I try to download the file directly from apache it works, all 4.7MB are > >>>> received. > >>>> > >>>> As expected the browser starts the download and reports it is expecting a > >>>> file of 4.7MB. > >>>> However, the download stops at 2.000.000 bytes no matter what browser I use > >>>> (normally i use > >>>>Firefox on Linux), no matter if php runs on apache2 or apache1.3 > >>>> > >>>> Is there some php config option I missed ? > >>>> Could this be from curlwrappers ? > >>>> Where could this come from ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Thanks, > >>>>Catalin > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>>>To unsubscribe, visit: > >>>>http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >