Do you mean the following: 1. A user sends a request to your server to get a compressed file 2. You compress the file on the server 3. You want to send back to compressed file to the server It is number 3 you asking for? In that case: <?php header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); readfile("path_to_compressed_file"); ?> /Peter -----Original Message----- From: Rafael Mora [mailto:moraloco@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:34 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: send a file or stream Hi! i want to send a file or output stream in a .php, but first compress it, I tryed the example to compress files but how do i do to send as answer to the http request?? Rafa -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php