file transfer to client machine

[Anon]

Why doesn't this work?

$filename = "text.txt";
$size = filesize($filename);

if(@$fp=fopen("$filename","r")) {
Header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Content-Length: $size");
header("Pragma: no-cache, must-revalidate");
readfile("$filename");
fclose($fp);
}

What I want is for it to download the file to a client's machine. However, all it does is display the content to the screen. I've tried several versions of this and they all display to screen, not download.

TIA

Robin

[ldivinag]

why not just use the FTP://... url heading?

also, the client may not be setup to handle the extension. on netscape 4.7X, EDIT|PREFERENCES|NAVIGATOR|APPLICATION.

[knight]

Here is some good code. its based of a anti-leeching system but I'm sure you can copy some snippets to help =)

<?php
$domain="www.yourdomain.com";
$folder="filefolder";
$filename=stripslashes(urldecode($QUERY_STRING));
if ($filename==""){die("<h1>Invalid File Request...</h1>");}
$refr=getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
list($remove,$stuff)=split('//',$refr,2);
list($home,$stuff)=split('/',$stuff,2);
if($home!=$domain){die("<h1>Leecher!</h1>This file is from $domain");
}else{
$fp=@fopen("http://".$domain."/".$folder."/".$filename,"r");
if($fp){
if (ereg(".mp3",$filename)){$xtype="audio/mpeg";}
elseif(ereg(".zip",$filename)){$xtype="application/x-zip-compressed";}
elseif(ereg(".exe",$filename)){$xtype="application/x-msdownload";}
else{$xtype="application/octet-stream";}
Header("Content-Type: $xtype");
Header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
Header("Content-Disposition: ; Filename=$filename");
readfile("http://".$domain."/".$folder."/".$filename);
}else{
die("file not found");
}}
?>

[Anon]

Well, the idea is to create a file on the fly and send it to the client machine. In this case, the client machine is my machine and I know that it works elsewhere. I just can't get it to work for me.

My understanding is that I could write the header triggering the client browser's SAVE AS function and then anything I print would be saved in that file. Correct?

If so, it's not working. Whether I try sending a file from the server or content I'm printing, everything goes straight to the screen.

I've tried about half a dozen things, including copying code that I know works on my server.

there's got to be something I'm missing.

[Anon]

Ok, that works. Thank you very much for your time.

[Anon]

Ok, I can send an existing file, but there are some issues with it:

• what would the 'Content-Disposition:' be in order to send whatever I print out using php?

• also, I've deleted the text file that it was sending, but it keeps sending it no matter what I have print out.