FTP functions

[Anon]

HI,
I am trying to write a script which has to download a file from remote ftp and send it to the user

right now it has two wariants - one - downloading entire file to the server and then flushing it back to user - that's not a good way, because if the file is bigger, the user waits in front of white screen trying to figure out what is happening. so it de-facto works only with smaller files.

second way is to FOPEN () the file and flushing it out right as it comes from the ftp-site. this one has two main disadvantages - id does not work on solaris(dunno why, i think i had it in one while, but then i messed up entire file 🙁 ) for which it's mainly intended to work with
second - users can't specify the bin/ascii method, so the get messy files.

does anyone know how to download the files using the ftp functions ?
i think that ftp_fget may do the stuff, but i was unable to figure out how 🙁

thanks a lot

Michael

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How about you just redirect the user to the FTP server and skip dowloading it from php (which means you are effectively down and uploading the file, wasting bandwidth)

[Anon]

Hi,
our net is enforced with firewalls and one of the restrictions is that noone can have ftp server accessible from the outside (the Bad world), so people have to use our main ftp server, which is for them not as good as having all their files served. so i am trying to write a small script that will sit on computer inside our network and could comunicate with all the ftp server from all users and will serve the data through https.
bandwidth is no object, because of our hype connection (ATM 2) and the awerage size of forgotten files (2-5 M😎.