note 25245 added to function.fpassthru

Replies to the above (10-Sep-2002 05:38 and 10-Sep-2002 06:17) anon posts: 10-Sep-2002 05:38 -- Using temporary redirects in the manner you describe only work if you have the files in a location which are directly accessible by a regular HTTP request (temporarily or not). This isn't an effective solution for me, because it is a specific requirement of my implementation that certain files are accessible only through PHP: user permissions for downloading files are handled via PHP and a user/license database instead of traditional .htaccess methods. In the past (before PHP) I used CGI scripts to create temporary per-downloader symlinks to the files and generated .htaccess files, along with htpasswd/group files, but it was a sloppy method because the symlinks would linger (or be deleted prematurely), and wasn't conducive to online order processing etc. This method (via fpassthru()) is much better: there is no direct access to any file, by design. 10-Sep-2002 06:17 - My implementation does set the Content-Length header. It does not help. Some browsers' download dialogs still linger for 15-30 seconds after the download is complete, leading some users to think the download has stalled and to reinitiate it. In those browsers where this has been a problem and I've tested it, the "Connection: close" header has worked great. It's not abused: the download manager implementation is such that the header is sent only for HTTP requests that directly result in the download occuring. It might be worthwhile investigating whether or not there is a php hook into the server's watchdog timer so that it can be set on a per-script basis and use that; but setting it to a low value globally seems just as bad as sending "Connection: close" for every page would be. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fpassthru.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+25245 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+25245 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+25245