On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 13:27 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>> Good morning Jim,
>>
>> Thank your for your help, I will now adapt my scripts and test it.
>>
>> And if a user had done a partial download, how can I set the pointer to
>> resume the download? I personaly find websites offering downloads but
>> not resuming very annoying, so I like to do it better... :-)
>>
>> I know I have to get a $_HTTP['????'] header for the partial request,
>> but which? And then I have too seek fread() right? But how?
>>
>> > Then here, do this...
>> >
>> > $current_size = 0;
>> > while ( !feof($HANDLER) ) {
>> > $current_size += $buffer;
>> > echo fread($HANDLE, $buffer);
>> > }
>> >
>> > Now, do what you want with $current_size
>> >
>> > Maybe have a variable that you check it against that contains the users
>> > allow amount of transfer...
>> >
>> > $current_size = 0;
>> > while ( !feof($HANDLER) && $current_size < $allowed_limit ) {
>> > $current_size += $buffer;
>> > echo fread($HANDLE, $buffer);
>> > }
>> >
>> > Hope this gets you leading down the right path...
>>
>> Yes. :-)
>>
>> However, I do not want to break downloads...
>> So I check the $current_size AFTER each completed download and since
>> $USER can only download one file at once, it should work without any
>> problems.
>>
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>> Michelle Konzack
>> Systemadministrator
>> 24V Electronic Engineer
>> Tamay Dogan Network
>> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
>>
>>
> I don't think this is actually possible. I've never seen it happen
> before. It would need some sort of dedicated client-side software to
> recognise exactly how much has been downloaded and then request the rest
> of it. A browser doesn't yet have this capability I believe.
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
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