Reading a file from remote server and returning the content.

[naik.apoorv]

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

[Adam]

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.

[naik.apoorv]

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.