oh so its total downloads ever? Mine won't work them. Musta read tooo fast.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> A quick and dirty solution may be the use of http headers:
>
> [do counter stuff, careful not to output anything to the browser];
> header("location:www.link-location/path/to/file");
>
> But if they have redirects turned off that won't work.  Hrm.
>
> Actually, I don't see why you couldn't direct them to the counter
> page, and then use headers to set the content type  to whatever mime
> type the file is, and return the file directly.
>
> That would work even if they had redirects turned off, I think.
>
> --
> Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
>    Peter De Vries
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > That's exactly what i want to do.  but this part: have  counter logic
> > actually start the download has be stumped.   I'll look at the links.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:50 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe change the download link to go to the counter logic, and then
> >> the counter logic actually start the download?
> >
> >
>
> 

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