[Serving a file download of a remote file]

So you're wanting the user to be able to download the file theirsite.com/file.zip, but you want the link to say yoursite.com/file.zip, but you also don't want the file to have to be on your site?

 

Yeah. The scenario is like this

 

Remote File: http://www.xyz.com/setup.exe

 

On my site I wish to use a file say " download.php "

 

that provides the same contents of the file by accessing it but not downloading it to my server.

[Serving a file download of a remote file]

Dear PHPFreak members,

I have been searching a solution for serving a file download via my website. The file to be downloaded is actually on a remote server.

 

What i need is a code that serves as a download medium without actually downloading the file to my web server. Something like masking file url 

 

Can anyone help me with it ???

Have been trying this since days. But no solution till date.

[Downloading REMOTE Files]

I need to dwonload a remote file say http://abc.com/files/abc.zip.

Assuming that the file size > 100MB

 

Is there a way to download the file in parts/chunks say 10MB each ?

[Redirecting url of one server to another while masking the new url]

It's not possible. You can't redirect to a page on another domain and have the original domain still displayed in the address bar. Imagine the security implications this would have.

 

Ok, I get it no problems with that . But how can I redirect my url to another url with the same parameters. Can u help me on that ?

The remote url returns a file for download , I need that my url redirects to the remote one and provides the same download.

 

Thnks for replying

[Redirecting url of one server to another while masking the new url]

Hey I m a newbie in configuring the .htaccess files.

Actually i need to redirect certain url patterns of my website to another website

 

Ex:

 

myurl : http://dl1.abc.com/<some query string>

newurl: http://dl1.xyz.com/<same string as above>

 

Can anyone help me out here ? I m so messed up with it .

Also I need to know that can this redirection process be transparent to the end user , like, when he enter a link

 

http://dl1.abc.com/<something> the redirection occurs but the url visible to the user is

still

http://dl1.abc.com

 

currently i'm using the following code

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://dl1.abc.com$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://dl1.xyz.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Is the code correct or it needs some modifications ?

Please provide a sample code .

 

[Reading a file from remote server and returning the content.]

Will it be the same file downloaded multiple times, or multiple files downloaded once? If the latter you're probably going to struggle with this as you can't 'stream' files through a browser like that. Your server would have to download the >500MB file prior to allowing the user to download it. Dependent on your server's connection speed and how many users will be downloading at once, it could be a long wait.

 

If it's the same file however, or several that are frequently used, I'd download a cached version periodically to your own server.

 

Only a single file is to be downloaded at a time. Figuring out the problem of buffering, I had an idea of linking the download page to the file on remote server. " When the user accesses the download page it directly uses the remote file link in the header attachment ".

Whether it would work ? I have not tried though but maybe I will be up with the code today for testing.

[Reading a file from remote server and returning the content.]

Hey guys I m developing a download system for my server that reads files from a third party server and enables MY USER to download it via my URL. What mechanisms should i use to manage this efficiently ???

 

file_get_contents();
fopen();

 

Or should I use some kind of buffer mechanism ??? Please do provide a code sample as I'm stuck here very badly.

 

Note: The file sizes may be >500MB

[Remote login using curl]

Please use the code tags!

 

Are u suggesting me to use them in my post here or in my ACTUAL code ???

[Remote login using curl]

Hey guys i'm using the following code to POST data to the HTTPS url given below. But I m unable to perform a remote login and access the rest of the website. Can u find out the flaws in the code snippet and rectify it ? Or suggest a new code snippet.

 

Also can anyone suggest how to open/read the contents of the login restricted pages on a successful login .

 

 

 

$fullurl = "https://premium.rpnet.biz/login.php/";

$postFields="username=&password=&cookieval=on&login=";

$username="";

$password="";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$postFields);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fullurl);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt"); # The name of the file containing the cookie data.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");

$returned = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

var_dump($returned);

 

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Output:

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:27:58 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=nthfd25gn6vpm89k18fpgamgc6; path=/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 6336 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

 

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If I change the url to https://premium.rpnet.biz/usercp.php/

then the output is

 

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:28:00 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: lo[uname]=deleted; expires=Thu, 05-Nov-2009 16:27:59 GMT; path=/; domain=premium.rpnet.biz Set-Cookie: lo[pass]=deleted; expires=Thu, 05-Nov-2009 16:27:59 GMT; path=/; domain=premium.rpnet.biz Location: https://premium.rpnet.biz/login.php Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 bool(true)

[[b]How to retrieve the JSON response from a URL[/b]]

I have to get the data from the url

 

https://test.httpapi.com/api/domains/available.json?auth-userid=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain&tlds=com&tlds=info&tlds=org&tlds=net&suggest-alternative=true

 

The above url returns a JSON response when proper parameters are used .

Can anyone suggest a portion of code that can handle this problem ??

 

also the above url can return an xml response if the url used is

 

https://test.httpapi.com/api/domains/available.xml?auth-userid=0&auth-password=password&domain-name=domain&tlds=com&tlds=info&tlds=org&tlds=net&suggest-alternative=true

 

also can any1 provide a way of handling this .

I m quite new to php and in need of help