Re: PHP and serving streaming media

> I'm working on a website for my quartet, The Chiara String Quartet. You wouldn't happen to be Chicago-based, would you?... :-) > This works fine in netscape, but IE 5 does not work. Investigating further, > I found a basic difference between the way Apache streams straight .wax and > ram files vs. the php filtered one. Find below: For the link within the actual HTML, instead of using links like: http://chiaraquartet.net/streaming.php?fileid=42 Try using links like this: http://chiaraquartet.net/streaming.php/bartok4_1.ram?fileid=42 While that extra bartok4_1.ram looks real goofy to us humans, IE thinks that's the name and type of file it is downloading, regardless of the Content-type: header it *OUGHT* to be looking at because Microsoft sucks. > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 05:41:11 GMT > Server: Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_bwlimited/0.8 PHP/4.0.4pl1 > mod_log_bytes/0.2 mod_frontpage/3.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.0 OpenSSL/0.9.5a > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.4pl1 > Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=a90d719b158c9275ba42b86571df2149; path=/ > Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT > Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, > pre-check=0 > Pragma: no-cache > Connection: close > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: audio/x-pn-realaudio > > 36 > http://music.chiaraquartet.net/bartok4/g2/bartok4_1.rm > 0 > > As you can see, the contents are encased by the length of the file and an > ending 0, like a normal html file. You can also see the extra headers PHP > adds in. > > How do I get rid of the 36 and the 0? You'd have to show us the source code that generates this output... The headers is internal PHP stuff, but you can over-ride by sending your own. The 36 and 0 are almost certainly *YOUR* PHP script being not quite right...