On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:27:32PM -0700, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
I have an application that delivers files to the client browser. These
files a very large video files. 250mb+ each. I have two options: 1) I
could have PHP deliver the file with fread, or 2) I could have PHP
present a link
I have an application that delivers files to the client browser. These
files a very large video files. 250mb+ each. I have two options: 1) I
could have PHP deliver the file with fread, or 2) I could have PHP
present a link to the file. However, for security purposes, I would
rather not
I've seen this problem many times before, but I'm not sure what solution was
found.
Possible solutions:
Encrypt the file, make it publicly available, and then give the right people
the encryption key.
Put it behind a .htaccess file allowing only the IP of the correct person -
remove the
Thank you for the input. For now we are just using PHP to create symbolic
links to the video files and the links are removed when they are done
viewing the video. We are open to other suggest still, but for now, this
fills our needs and bypasses putting so much stress on PHP as to put
Jonathan,
Not sure how you're using fread, but here's a slightly modified version of
what's in the manual that might help:
?php
$handle = fopen(/var/dump/vids/test.mpg, rb);
while (!feof($handle)) {
print fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
?
If my understanding of this code is correct
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