Some errors...

Hello Andrey,

have you really tested your package? I don't think so, sorry.

The idea about this package is great, that's a fact. But there are some bugs...

in the file "getfile.php":
- don't make a html-output BEFORE session_start(). In this case, there will be no sessioncookie set.

- don't use in_array(), if you want to search a multiple array for a key-value. use array_key_exists($what, $array['name'])


Your biggest bug is in the file little_leech.php. You cannot use file_get_contents() to read a file and send it out to the user. i only get about 277bytes of a 1MiB, 100MiB and 1GiB file - not more.

a better way to read and put out a file to the user, is to read and cache 1024 bytes from a file, put it out, delete the cache and read the next 1024bytes from the file. This method works fine with big files, i wrote such a download protection script, too.


Keep working ;)


Greetings, Patrick


PS: Sorry for my english^^

Thank's for you reply)

About first bug. I know that session_start() sends a header, but it was morning so i not very good saw what i'm doing))
About second. I agree with you, i didn't think about that.

All bugs was fixed. Thank you for your help)

Best Regards,
Andrew.

Hey Andrey,

i know that^^ coding in the morning - no good idea :D

there are 2 other things. Firstly on line 15 in getfile.php - change in_array() to array_key_exists(), otherwise there will be a warning-output from php.

secondly: i forgot to tell you, that you have to set the php execution time. the standard php execution time is 30 seconds, but that's in most cases not enough. With a downloadspeed about 6Mbit you'll get only about 33MB from a big file, so you have to set a bigger execution time.

ini_set('max_execution_time','3600');

This will set the execution_time on 1 hour. Should be enouth for 1GiB Files at 1Mbit downloadspeed. Bigger is better.

But i think this will not work everywhere. I've testet this only on rootservers, windows and linux.

Mh no edtit functions here? shit^^

You'll need not 1 hour for a 1GiB file at 1Mbit Downloadspeed, you'll need three hours. So, i think it's a good idea to set the execution time on 10 hours for really large files...

Best regards,

Patrick

all done)
thank you)

Now it looks perfect ;) Good work.


Best Regards,

Patrick

Ok Maybe I'm too new to know a lot, but how is this program run via the page? <a href="what goes here?">

Rachael
PHP newbie

Hello :)

ah it's a bit tricky, it's better you know the basics about PHP. The best way is using the code of getfile.php in your own PHP-Script. This way don't work in simple html-pages, only works in php files.

you _can_ use the getfile.php as a "stand-alone" program, in this case you only have to write as html-link:

<a href="http://domain.com/path/to/getfile.php?f=file_name.ext">Click here to go to the download-link</a>

Then getfile.php will show you the "real" clickable downloadlink. But i think this way really don't looks great...

Thank you. Could you help me?

Rachael
PHP newbie

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