note 115548 added to function.symlink

In addition to note posted by olszewski_marek at yahoo dot com: You could delete the symlink after few seconds - even if file is quite large, OS should store it in memory for http server to properly serve it. Here's how: <?php // Make sure script keeps executing even if user aborts ignore_user_abort(true); // Create symlink mkdir($downloaddir . $string, 0777); symlink($safedir . $filename, $downloaddir . $string . "/" . $filename); // Redirect client Header("Location: " . $downloadURL . $string . "/" . $filename); // Make sure client gets redirect headers, any output from now on should be ignored by client flush(); ob_flush(); // A bit of timeout sleep(3); // Remove symlink unlink($downloaddir . $string . "/" . $filename); ?> With this approach You're sure that You have no unnecessary symlinks, AND no symlinks are deleted with high concurency. I've tested this on some highly limited hosting service - it saves huge ammounts of resources (symlink itself, but also directory scans). above 10000 downloads in 24 hours - no complaints, no errors reported. ---- Server IP: 46.17.113.50 Probable Submitter: 46.76.129.167 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/115548 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115548 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/115548 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php