RE: [PHP] File Download Completion

Seems like your theory doesn't stand the reality test :) This is the script which for some reason works with Netscape but not with IE (it used to) : ignore_user_abort(0); $filename="test.gz"; $file="/home/examples/" . $filename; header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); header("Content-Type: application/x-gzip"); header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file)); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); $fp = fopen($file, "r"); if(!$fp) { echo"Can't open file for read"; exit(); } print fread($fp, filesize($file)); echo"<BR><BR><BR><BR><H1><B>The file was downloaded successfully</B></H1><BR><BR><BR><BR>"; For some reason it never shows the last echo weather i let the DL complete or stop it in the middle... berber -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Grace [mailto:dewin@oldbattery.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:37 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] File Download Completion "Boaz Yahav" <berber@netvision.net.il> wrote in message news:EEC6EBAB1A35E94789FB2872A1698F75145164@ntx2.netvision.net.il... > Is it possible to find out if a client finished to DL a file? > > Suppose i put a link to a file and people start to DL the file. > Some people can stop the DL in the middle. I need to know > how many people completed the DL. > > Any simple ideas how to do this? > > thanks > > berber > One option could be to use ignore_user_abort: <?PHP ignore_user_abort(0); // Script will be aborted if transfer fails for whatever reason ?> blahblahblahyaddityyaddiy yaddity <?PHP // If we're this far, it means the file's more or less transferred all the way. file_did_download(); ?> Caveats with this: 1. Your file has to be part of the PHP page (though not neccessarily in the file itself, header("content-type: blah/blah"); combined with readfile($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 -- 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