Fwd: [PHP] send a file or stream

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rafael Mora <moraloco@gmail.com> Date: Aug 29, 2006 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] send a file or stream To: Peter Lauri <lists@dwsasia.com> 1. A user sends a request to your server to get a compressed file 2. You compress the file on the server 3. I want to send back the file to the user On 8/29/06, Peter Lauri <lists@dwsasia.com> wrote:

Do you mean the following: 1. A user sends a request to your server to get a compressed file 2. You compress the file on the server 3. You want to send back to compressed file to the server It is number 3 you asking for? In that case: <?php header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); readfile("path_to_compressed_file"); ?> /Peter -----Original Message----- From: Rafael Mora [mailto:moraloco@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:34 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] send a file or stream Hi! i want to send a file or output stream in a .php, but first compress it, I tryed the example to compress files but how do i do to send as answer to the http request?? Rafa