Re: File Download Completion

"Boaz Yahav" <berber@netvision.net.il> wrote in message news:EEC6EBAB1A35E94789FB2872A1698F75145164@ntx2.netvision.net.il... > Is it possible to find out if a client finished to DL a file? > > Suppose i put a link to a file and people start to DL the file. > Some people can stop the DL in the middle. I need to know > how many people completed the DL. > > Any simple ideas how to do this? > > thanks > > berber > One option could be to use ignore_user_abort: <?PHP ignore_user_abort(0); // Script will be aborted if transfer fails for whatever reason ?> blahblahblahyaddityyaddiy yaddity <?PHP // If we're this far, it means the file's more or less transferred all the way. file_did_download(); ?> Caveats with this: 1. Your file has to be part of the PHP page (though not neccessarily in the file itself, header("content-type: blah/blah"); combined with readfile($filename) will do the trick I think. 2. You (probably) can't use programs that are capable of resuming file transfers. If you can somehow, I have NO idea how it'll react. 3. If the user aborts right after the file_did_download() function is called but before the script actually terminates, things can go awry. I'm not entirely sure how this would be handled. -- - Daniel Grace <http://dewin.oldbattery.com/> "Space may be the final frontier but its made in a Hollywood basement." - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication