I found the solution, I ended up instead of using readfile, use fopen and
fpassthru. Here is the code that solved the problem
<?php
$pathtofile = '/abs/path/to/file'.urldecode( $_GET['link'] );
$download = 'url/path/to/fille'.urldecode( $_GET['link'] );
$type = urldecode( $_GET['type'] );
$size = filesize( $pathtofile );
header("Pragma: private");
header("Expires: 0"); // set expiration time
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
// browser must download file from server instead of cache
// force download dialog
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
header("Content-Type: $type");
// use the Content-Disposition header to supply a recommended filename
and
// force the browser to display the save dialog.
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=".basename($download).";");
/*
The Content-transfer-encoding header should be binary, since the file
will be read
directly from the disk and the raw bytes passed to the downloading
computer.
The Content-length header is useful to set for downloads. The browser
will be able to
show a progress meter as a file downloads. The content-lenght can be
determines by
filesize function returns the size of a file.
*/
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
header("Content-Length: $size");
$fh = fopen( $pathtofile , "r");
fpassthru($fh);
?>
> Okay, I found a solution to part one of my questions by changing my
headers,
> but for some reason I am still getting a fractional download of the file.
> Most commonly it's about 16.6KB of a 4MB file. The kicker is it says that
it
> completed successfully.
>
> Here is the modified code:
> <?php
> $download = 'url/path/to/file'.urldecode( $_GET['link'] );
> $type = urldecode( $_GET['type'] );
> $size = filesize( '/abs/path/to/file'.urldecode( $_GET['link'] ) );
> header("Pragma: public");
> header("Expires: 0"); // set expiration time
> header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
> // browser must download file from server instead of cache
> // force download dialog
> header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
> header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
> header("Content-Type: application/download");
> // use the Content-Disposition header to supply a recommended filename
> and
> // force the browser to display the save dialog.
> header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=".basename($download).";");
> /*
> The Content-transfer-encoding header should be binary, since the file
> will be read
> directly from the disk and the raw bytes passed to the downloading
> computer.
> The Content-length header is useful to set for downloads. The browser
> will be able to
> show a progress meter as a file downloads. The content-lenght can be
> determines by
> filesize function returns the size of a file.
> */
> header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
> header("Content-Length: ".(string)($size));
> readfile("$download");
> ?>
>
> > I am having some trouble making it possible to download a file using the
> > header function. The problems are: (1) I get the dialog box to download
> the
> > file, but for some reason the type of file isn't getting passed to the
> box,
> > and (2) when I download a 4MB file it only seems to be getting 16.6KB.
> >
> > I haven't used header for this purpose before this, so maybe I am
missing
> > something. I Googled around and found the content-disposition type I
> > thought I needed, I actually tried 3 different types (the file is a
> > compressed zip file). I Googled around for tutorials on downloading
files
> > and still haven't found the answer to correcting my problem. Here is
the
> > code I am using, maybe a couple more trained eyes looking at this could
> help
> > me out.
> >
> > <?php
> > $download = 'http://www.usa-financial.com'.urldecode(
$_GET['link'] );
> > $type = urldecode( $_GET['type'] );
> > $size = filesize( '/home2/www/usa-financial'.urldecode(
> > $_GET['link'] ) );
> > header("Content-type: $type");
> > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$download;");
> > header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
> > header("Content-Length: $size");
> >
> > echo "<!-- $type \n $size \n $download \n -->\n";
> > ?>
> >
> > Josh
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