Resumable downloads when using PHP to send the file?

Question

We are using a PHP scripting for tunnelling file downloads, since we don\'t want to expose the absolute path of downloadable file:

header(\"Content-Type: $ct         


        

Answer 1

A really nice way to solve this without having to "roll your own" PHP code is to use the mod_xsendfile Apache module. Then in PHP, you just set the appropriate headers. Apache gets to do its thing.

header("X-Sendfile: /path/to/file");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; file=\"filename\"");