You're right of course. I got things messed up in my head (thinking of the case where you'd pipe a file through readfile()). That'll teach me to act smart. :o)
- Andreas Den 23.01.2007 kl. 15:49 skrev Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andreas, you don't need to set Content-type to "video/mpg," in fact I > believe that doing so is destructive. > > The actual content returned in the redirect response is either > text/plain or text/html, and NOT video/mpg. When the browser follows > the redirect and requests the actual video file it will receive the > proper content-type from the server, presumably video/mpg. If you set > your redirect response to video/mpg and send it to a browser that > doesn't support redirects for some odd reason the user is going to get a > really weird looking page, maybe even a video player without a video. > > So don't set the content type explicitly. PHP or Apache will handle > this for you, returning either text/html or text/plain depending on the > format of the "The file you have requested has temporarily moved to..." > message. > > Yours, > > Mike > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas >> Haugstrup Pedersen >> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:10 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Permalinks and download >> tracking? How do I do that? >> >> Your syntax is spot on. It's only lacking one crucial thing. >> Per default PHP is sent as text/html so along with the >> Location header you need to send the correct content-type >> header (to build on your example): >> >> header('Content-type: video/mpg'); >> header('Location: '.$videos[$_GET['video']]); >> >> And since Mike was writing pseudocode you also need to add >> your own input checking (e.g. throw a 404 if the video isn't >> found) and so on. >> >> As Mike demonstrated the difficult bit is not sending the >> headers. It's deciding what kind of stats you want to save >> and then building the database scripts to deal with it. >> >> - Andreas >> >> Den 23.01.2007 kl. 14:47 skrev Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Hey Bill, >> > >> > This is indeed pretty easy to do. We do it for a number of >> reasons, >> > from collecting statistical information to finding the most >> > appropriate server to deliver the video from, which means that our >> > code for doing this is pretty complicated. Your code can >> probably be much simpler. >> > >> > I'm not really a php programmer (I'm more of a perl guy), but this >> > kind of form should work for you assuming you have a call style like >> > http://mywebsite.com/video.php?video=bar.mpg: >> > >> > <?php >> > $videos['foo.mpg'] = 'http://bar.baz/foo.mpg'; >> > $videos['bar.mpg'] = 'http://foo.baz/bar.mpg'; >> > >> > // Do what you want to collect data, et cetera >> > >> > header('Location: ' . $videos[$_GET['video']]; ?> >> > >> > You should probably consider this pseudo code and not actual code, >> > since my recollection of php syntax and variable instantiation is >> > pretty rusty. One thing to keep in mind is that you cannot output >> > anything from your php script prior to calling the header() >> function >> > -- if it isn't the first thing you call that produces output your >> > script will break with an ugly HTML Web page with a big bold error >> > message in the middle of it. >> > >> > Yours, >> > >> > Mike >> > Co-founder & CEO, blip.tv >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [email protected] >> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of billshackelford >> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:39 AM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: [videoblogging] Permalinks and download tracking? >> >> How do I do that? >> >> >> >> Blip.tv has permalinks like this: >> >> >> >> http://blip.tv/file/get/Bshack-PopPopPop659.m4v >> >> >> >> When you click on it, it will redirect to the actual file >> location. >> >> When it redirects it also gathers information about you for stats. >> >> The above link will work in itunes even with the redirects. >> >> >> >> How do they do that? I could I do that with PHP? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen >> <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ >
