Pass through download

[liaaam]

I'm trying to get a pass through download script working.

Its basically based on all the ones I've found around the internet but it only half works.

At the moment I can use to for downloads of text files but pdf files get corupted.

Firefox recognises the file types and seems to get the file extensions half right but IE has no idea.

Basically the script gets handed an ID, this is looked up in a DB to find the real file name. Then this file is sent to the user.

$name = $dadir . $data['dafile_path'];

if ($fp = fopen($name, 'rb')) {
    $fsize = filesize($name);
    $fname = basename($name);

header("Pragma: ");
header("Cache-Control: ");
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$name ."\"");
header("Content-length: $fsize");

fpassthru($fd);
}

Thanks

Liaaam

[ndb01]

Maybe you should turn zlib.output_compression off.

	if (ini_get("zlib.output_compression"))
		ini_set("zlib.output_compression", "Off");

Also, pay attention to the headers which are sent. In my post of today you'll see the result of many hours of reading 😉

Nico