Re: why isn't this working? (many questions inside)

Just curious, why not use FTP for such a large file? /dkm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wei Weng" <wweng@kencast.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:39 PM Subject: [PHP] why isn't this working? (many questions inside) > First, I am running (currently) php 4.0.6 under Redhat 7.2 with kernel > 2.4.10 > > I know you can do the following: > > <? > > header("Content-type: application/force-download"); > header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=blah.txt"); > readfile("blah.txt"); > > ?> > > to force the user to download a file. > > However, this wouldn't work if blah.txt is larger than 2G on my machine > with php 4.0.6 for Redhat 7.2, because all the file I/O operations are > done in 32 bits functions. > > So here are two solutions i though about: > > 1) instead of readfile("blah.txt"), do a passthru("cat blah.txt"). Since > the basic idea of forcing a download is to pipe the file content to the > standard output (which is the browser in this case), i don't understand > why passthru("cat blah.txt") wouldn't do the trick. In fact, I can only > download about 88Mbs of the whole 4G file I planned to download. > > 2) recompile the php package with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 enabled. However, > with the ./configure; make; make install, i can't seem to figure out where > to stick the option in. (prefer doing it in one of the configure arguments > if possible) > > Forgive me if I posted this to the wrong mailing list, I had been losing > hairs over these puzzled questions. > > TIA. > > -- > Wei Weng > Network Software Engineer > KenCast Inc. > > > -- > 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 >