On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:31 -0500, Tamara Temple wrote: > On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Jim Giner wrote: > > > Well - the code works just fine as is and that's all I care about. > > As for > > Richard's comments - the url in my header(Location....) statement > > points to > > a pdf file, not a php file, so the target is not sending any headers > > (that I > > know of ). > > The server will send the appropriate headers for files like that. If > you want to see it, try doing a wget or curl and make sure to snag the > headers as well (or instead) of the actual file. > > For instance: > > curl -O -D headers.txt 'http://wiki.tamaratemple.com/uploads/Main/CoolWebThings/bumping_locks.pdf' > > returns headers.txt: > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:28:28 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) > Last-Modified: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:54:08 GMT > ETag: "9386f8-323dc0-e4df9400" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 3292608 > Content-Type: application/pdf > > without doing anything special. > > (no, i don't advocate going around picking locks. it's just useful > info to have...) > The advantage to having PHP send the correct headers, is that the file you are linking to does not need to be in a web accessible area, meaning that it's protected from someone accessing it without passing some form of security you have in place in your PHP code. Also, it removes any issues with a server not having been set up correctly, which is quite often a problem on IIS (Apache is a lot better, but even it has issues with some less-popular formats) -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
