Header Download File Problem

burncycle

I have a site that is downloading by using headers to hide the url from the person. I got it working and it downloads just fine. The problem I'm having is that when it downloads the browser goes to a blank screen and when I hit save on the file download window the browser gets an action canceled screen. The download goes fine but something is getting interrupted or something.

Here is my code:

$filename = "file.zip";

$path = "/dl/";
$filewithpath = $path . $filename;
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename);
readfile($filewithpath);

Is there anyway you can make it so that the browser stays at the page it's on when the download is going instead of going to a blank screen? Or have it redirect to a different page when the download is done?

Frederick

why do you want to block the address of where it is coming from, when a person downloads, they will know where it is coming from then.

burncycle

i mainly want it to hide the directory structure of the url to protect files from being leeched. But that's no biggie, i want to really know how to fix the page from going blank or getting an error when the file downloads. Can I also put in the header a redirect to someplace when the download is done?

drawmack

Originally posted by burncycle
i mainly want it to hide the directory structure of the url to protect files from being leeched. But that's no biggie, i want to really know how to fix the page from going blank or getting an error when the file downloads. Can I also put in the header a redirect to someplace when the download is done?

If it is a download link then I would have another script called getFile.php or something like that. This file would open in a pop-up window, use ftp to shot the file down to the person and then close the pop-up window. This would still hide your structure and also use ftp to transfer the files instead of http.