Stream FTP download to output

Question

I am trying to stream/pipe a file to the user\'s browser through HTTP from FTP. That is, I am trying to print the contents of a file on an FTP server.

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Answer 1

(I've never met this problem myself, so that's just a wild guess ; but, maybe... )

Maybe changing the size of the ouput buffer for the "file" you are writing to could help ?

For that, see stream_set_write_buffer.

For instance :

$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w+');
stream_set_write_buffer($fp, 0);

With this, your code should use a non-buffered stream -- this might help...