redirect after file download problem

[Oziam]

I am using a script for users to download a file, however after the download I want to be able to

redirect the user or display a message etc... but I cannot get it to work.

 

My download code is below;

 

if($do_download){

$filename = 'file.zip';
$itemfile = ('/abc/123/htdocs/bin/'.$filename);
$filelength = filesize($itemfile);

$fp = @fopen($itemfile, "rb");

ob_start();
  Header("Pragma: public");
  Header("Expires: 0");
  Header("Cache-control: private");
  Header("Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed");
  Header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
  Header("Content-Length: $filelength");
  Header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
  Header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');
  Header("Connection: close");
ob_end_clean();
  while(!feof($fp)){
  print stream_get_contents($fp); // for PHP 5+ else use fread
}
fclose($fp);

header('Location: page2.php');
}

 

It doesn't seem to matter what I do whether a redirect or just an echo command nothing continues after the file is downloaded????

[MasterACE14]

is it possible that the 'print' before the header() is breaking the script?

print stream_get_contents($fp)

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The ONLY thing the code in your download file can do is output the headers() followed by the file data. Anything else it does will become part of the downloaded data.

 

Anything else you want to do must be accomplished on the page where the link to the download was located.