RE: [PHP] Download File Routine

Well I can think of a solution. Call your script like www.yoursite.com/script/path/to/file/filename where script is the name of your php script and make sure that /path/to/file is outside your web tree. Then in your PHP script you can parse $PATH_INFO (which in this case will be something like /path/to/file/filename) and fetch and send the file to the user. This way the user can only get the file while going through your script. With respect to making the user go through the authentification page first, you should store a list of authentificated users/ip's somewhere (DB/file) and before you send the file to the user in the above example, make you that you authenticated him in your login script. Mike -----Original Message----- From: GMansky [mailto:gmansky@starcafe.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:10 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Download File Routine I have a simple form to validate a user with a password which then brings up another page that show the file that can be downloaded. I have the name of the file hyperlinked. However, that will reveal the specific location of the file to be downloaded. How can I do it so that ... 1. even if the location of the file is known, it can not be downloaded without having gone through the authentication page 2. through a function, download the file. Thanks in advance George -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net