Re: [PHP] why isn't this working? (many questions inside)
Maybe your script timed out before it could finish. Try
set_time_limit(0)
Another possibility is that your browser gave up. You may need 4GB of
disk cache because browsers usually save all files in cache before
copying them to the place you designate.
Robin
Wei Weng wrote:
>
> First, I am running (currently) php 4.0.6 under Redhat 7.2 with kernel
> 2.4.10
>
> I know you can do the following:
>
>
> header("Content-type: application/force-download");
> header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=blah.txt");
> readfile("blah.txt");
>
> ?>
>
> to force the user to download a file.
>
> However, this wouldn't work if blah.txt is larger than 2G on my machine
> with php 4.0.6 for Redhat 7.2, because all the file I/O operations are
> done in 32 bits functions.
>
> So here are two solutions i though about:
>
> 1) instead of readfile("blah.txt"), do a passthru("cat blah.txt"). Since
> the basic idea of forcing a download is to pipe the file content to the
> standard output (which is the browser in this case), i don't understand
> why passthru("cat blah.txt") wouldn't do the trick. In fact, I can only
> download about 88Mbs of the whole 4G file I planned to download.
>
> 2) recompile the php package with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 enabled. However,
> with the ./configure; make; make install, i can't seem to figure out where
> to stick the option in. (prefer doing it in one of the configure arguments
> if possible)
>
> Forgive me if I posted this to the wrong mailing list, I had been losing
> hairs over these puzzled questions.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Wei Weng
> Network Software Engineer
> KenCast Inc.
>
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Re: [PHP] why isn't this working? (many questions inside)
Just curious, why not use FTP for such a large file?
/dkm
- Original Message -
From: "Wei Weng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: [PHP] why isn't this working? (many questions inside)
> First, I am running (currently) php 4.0.6 under Redhat 7.2 with kernel
> 2.4.10
>
> I know you can do the following:
>
>
> header("Content-type: application/force-download");
> header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=blah.txt");
> readfile("blah.txt");
>
> ?>
>
> to force the user to download a file.
>
> However, this wouldn't work if blah.txt is larger than 2G on my machine
> with php 4.0.6 for Redhat 7.2, because all the file I/O operations are
> done in 32 bits functions.
>
> So here are two solutions i though about:
>
> 1) instead of readfile("blah.txt"), do a passthru("cat blah.txt"). Since
> the basic idea of forcing a download is to pipe the file content to the
> standard output (which is the browser in this case), i don't understand
> why passthru("cat blah.txt") wouldn't do the trick. In fact, I can only
> download about 88Mbs of the whole 4G file I planned to download.
>
> 2) recompile the php package with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 enabled. However,
> with the ./configure; make; make install, i can't seem to figure out where
> to stick the option in. (prefer doing it in one of the configure arguments
> if possible)
>
> Forgive me if I posted this to the wrong mailing list, I had been losing
> hairs over these puzzled questions.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Wei Weng
> Network Software Engineer
> KenCast Inc.
>
>
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[PHP] why isn't this working? (many questions inside)
First, I am running (currently) php 4.0.6 under Redhat 7.2 with kernel
2.4.10
I know you can do the following:
to force the user to download a file.
However, this wouldn't work if blah.txt is larger than 2G on my machine
with php 4.0.6 for Redhat 7.2, because all the file I/O operations are
done in 32 bits functions.
So here are two solutions i though about:
1) instead of readfile("blah.txt"), do a passthru("cat blah.txt"). Since
the basic idea of forcing a download is to pipe the file content to the
standard output (which is the browser in this case), i don't understand
why passthru("cat blah.txt") wouldn't do the trick. In fact, I can only
download about 88Mbs of the whole 4G file I planned to download.
2) recompile the php package with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 enabled. However,
with the ./configure; make; make install, i can't seem to figure out where
to stick the option in. (prefer doing it in one of the configure arguments
if possible)
Forgive me if I posted this to the wrong mailing list, I had been losing
hairs over these puzzled questions.
TIA.
--
Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.
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