Re: [Nolug] php related question.

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 2:20 am, Pietu wrote:

Hey,

Just googling a bit I found this -

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/filter.html

but don't know about 1.3.x.

> > At first glance that doesn't look like anything php should have
> > it's hands in. If its an application layer issue, why not handle
> > it there (i.e. apache)?
>
> How would that be handled in apache?
>
> I think some additional information is needed. The download item is
> being read from the database. This is why I need to use PHP as a
> "delivery" method.
>
> If the file would be on the harddrive, apache would handle this
> byte-range by itself. Businesswise this would be unsuitable solution
> as then the file would stay on the harddrive for somebody to
> re-distribute the link.
>
> Writing a file to the harddrive when requested, could also be done,
> but after the download, there would be nothing to initiate the script
> to delete this file off the hd.
>
> This is definitely a quite interesting situation.
>
> btw, I already have a PHP script to correctly handle files UNDER 8k.
> I have no clue how to go above 8k. And this byte range request does
> not work all the time.
>
>
> P
>
> > On Saturday 08 March 2003 12:02 pm, Pietu wrote:
> > > This is all documented in HTTP1.1 and it is a standard
> > > webserver<->client behavior, but for some reason I cant find a
> > > way to make PHP to detect it. There must be some way since all
> > > this interactivity from the initial connection to the apache is
> > > recorded to the logs.
> >
> > At first glance that doesn't look like anything php should have
> > it's hands in. If its an application layer issue, why not handle
> > it there (i.e. apache)?
> >
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