what about this?
<?php
header("Location: $url_to");
exit;
?>
> http://server/download.php?url_to=/myfile.zip
check out
http://www.philipsdomain.com/hyperlinks/ for a redirect sample.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Lazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:30 AM
Subject: [PHP] file redirect?
> I'm trying to figure something out and thought I'd see if you guys have
any
> ideas.
>
> The goal: tracking the number of downloads for files on the server.
>
> The approach: routing file downloads through /download.php like this:
> http://server/download.php?target=/myfile.zip
>
> What I tried that worked was using javascript to launch download.php in a
> new window and use a meta tag to redirect to the file in question, like
this:
>
> print "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; URL=$destination'>";
>
> This works, but it's really slow, because it usually takes a while to open
> a new browser window.
>
> I found another approach, but couldn't get it to work:
>
> $content_type = "Content-type: application/zip";
> header($content_type);
> header("Content-disposition: filename=".$filename);
> header($destination);
>
> It seemed I got close at one point... it would open a File Save window,
but
> the file would end up as 0 bytes in size.
>
> My preference is using the second approach if I can get it working,
because
> it's much faster than opening a new browser window. Any ideas of how to
> make it work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ed
>
>
>
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