Re: Re: How to count transfered kBytes in File-Download

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 13:27 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Good morning Jim, >> >> Thank your for your help, I will now adapt my scripts and test it. >> >> And if a user had done a partial download, how can I set the pointer to >> resume the download? I personaly find websites offering downloads but >> not resuming very annoying, so I like to do it better... :-) >> >> I know I have to get a $_HTTP['????'] header for the partial request, >> but which? And then I have too seek fread() right? But how? >> >> > Then here, do this... >> > >> > $current_size = 0; >> > while ( !feof($HANDLER) ) { >> > $current_size += $buffer; >> > echo fread($HANDLE, $buffer); >> > } >> > >> > Now, do what you want with $current_size >> > >> > Maybe have a variable that you check it against that contains the users >> > allow amount of transfer... >> > >> > $current_size = 0; >> > while ( !feof($HANDLER) && $current_size < $allowed_limit ) { >> > $current_size += $buffer; >> > echo fread($HANDLE, $buffer); >> > } >> > >> > Hope this gets you leading down the right path... >> >> Yes. :-) >> >> However, I do not want to break downloads... >> So I check the $current_size AFTER each completed download and since >> $USER can only download one file at once, it should work without any >> problems. >> >> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening >> Michelle Konzack >> Systemadministrator >> 24V Electronic Engineer >> Tamay Dogan Network >> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant >> >> > I don't think this is actually possible. I've never seen it happen > before. It would need some sort of dedicated client-side software to > recognise exactly how much has been downloaded and then request the rest > of it. A browser doesn't yet have this capability I believe. > > > Ash > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'] ???