Serving a file download of a remote file

[naik.apoorv]

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.

[justin813]

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?

[naik.apoorv]

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.