Headers and passing a MPG thru a script

[Anon]

I want to make a php script that will verify the referer and then have a varible (i.e. $fileName) and from there open the file into Media Player or the default player. Like as if I put a link on here, you click on it and it opens up in the player, doesn't come up with a Save As.. dialog. I don't know if I need to set the content-type header or what. Please help...

Thanx,

James

[Anon]

You can send the Content-Type header, but nevertheless you can't force the browser to open the media file. It all depends on how the user set up his or her computer - it might open it or save it.

Diego

[Anon]

Where would I find out what Content-Type to put on it. Becuase right now it trys to save the file as video.php instead of the file name. Here is a sample of my code:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

$file="/path/to/videos/$video.mpg";

$file2 = fopen("$file","r");

fpassthru($file2);

Please help, thanx.