HTTP Download

Anon

Hi there,

I'm working on a project where the user
can specify files from the Internet to
be downloaded to my server.

When the user specifies a file on a
FTP-server i simply use the ftp_get
command.

But whan can I do to download an i.e.
zip file from a HTTP-server and save
it locally on the server running php?

Can't find a way to do that, so hope
someone out there can help me. If not
by php, then perhaps another way to get
around the problem.

Thanks in advance
Stig Vilholm Petersen

Anon

File downloads can take a loooong time, so I suggest you don't start any from the php script.

If you are on a un*x system, look at a program called "greed"

not only will it download ftp and http from just the URL, it will also
act like download manager, and retry-downloads.

You can use PHP to make a list of files and use a shell script to start the download.

If you are on windows.....

^#$&%
NO CARRIER

Anon

do you have a sample script that uses greed to download a file? i've got a php script now that does a download of files from a db (mysql) table. how would i modify/create a script that will download the files selected from a db using greed?

many thanks

[deleted]

You can't really...

Greed runs on the computer that receives the file.
All you can do on your server is offer a place to download the file from.
It's up to the user to decide to do the download with Greed.

Stig was downloading files to his server, so he could use Greed.
If you want to send files in the other direction, it's up to the receiver to use greed or whatever he likes (a browser, gozilla etc)