> What about using some type of a dispatch script? Locate all the files >> outside of the doc root and then just call: viewdocument.php?ID=12345678 ? >> Although now that I've typed that I realize that you would still be running >> the same issue.. Unless you used javascript in your PHP to call the file >> maybe? > > Hmmm, what if I tried to use PHP to write a simple batch file? Use the batch file to copy the selected file from one server to another. And then open the copied file using any method I wanted since it's new location would be in a temp directory?
And then maybe use if_exists() to see if the new file is located in the temp directory and if it is, display it. The only issue there might be when a file is really large or the network is sluggish and it could take 1-5 seconds for the file to copy over. In which case if_exists() would be false since it is taking a while for the file to copy. Hmmm.
