RE: [PHP] send a file or stream

[Peter Lauri]

You need to make sure that you are not outputting ANYTHING before you do this. 
I might guess that you have a whitespace in the top of the script. As soon as 
you output, the server can not send any more header information, and the 
browser will think it is just text instead of treating it as an octet-stream.

 

/Peter

 

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From: Rafael Mora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:25 AM
To: Peter Lauri
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] send a file or stream

 

I test it and gave me this: xœ ÉÈ,V¢D…'Ôâ=®(??/§C0/¿D!1O!3· ¿¨$1¯D¡¸¤(3/] 
LÖ‑ so the user should read that?? this is my code:

 

<?php
$params = array('level' => 6, 'window' => 15, 'memory' => 9);

$texto_original = "This is a test.\nThis is only a test.\nThis is not an 
important string.\n";
//echo "El texto original tiene " . strlen($texto_original) . " caracteres.\n";

$da = fopen('stations.gzip', 'w');
stream_filter_append($da, 'zlib.deflate', STREAM_FILTER_WRITE, $params);
fwrite($da, $texto_original);
fclose($da);

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
readfile("stations.gzip");



 

On 8/29/06, Peter Lauri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
readfile("path_to_compressed_file"); 
?>



Should do it then. if you know the path to the file :)



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From: Rafael Mora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:10 AM 
To: Peter Lauri
Subject: Re: [PHP] send a file or stream



1. A user sends a request to your server to get a compressed file
2. You compress the file on the server
3. I want to send back the file to the user 







On 8/29/06, Peter Lauri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Do you mean the following:

1. A user sends a request to your server to get a compressed file 
2. You compress the file on the server
3. You want to send back to compressed file to the server

It is number 3 you asking for?

In that case:

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
readfile("path_to_compressed_file");
?>

/Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Mora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:34 AM 
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] send a file or stream

Hi!

i want to send a file or output stream in a .php, but first compress it, I
tryed the example to compress files but how do i do to send as answer to the 

http request??

Rafa