RE: Downloding files once

This may work but i can't help thinking that this is the wrong way to
go.
Downloading 1GB or 2GB files via fpassthru doesn't feel right...

Sincerely

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-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:41 PM
To: Boaz Yahav
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net; Igal Rubinstein; Matt Wade
Subject: Re: Downloding files once


Hello,

On 08/06/2003 12:43 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote:
> I'm trying to allow users to download files from my servers. Files can

> be hundreds of MB in size and sometimes even a few GB. This is a
> closed section of the site and i would like to allow only
> members to be able to DL the files.
>
> I thought of using a download function that uses headers and
> readfile() or fread(). This way i can check who is the user and send /

> not send the file. However, this does not seem to work with
> such big files.

I think you are exceeding your PHP memory limit. I suggest that you use
fpassthru or maybe fread in many chunks of 100K and use flush() after
each chunk echo so you pass the data back to Apache instead of keeping
it in your PHP memory space.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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