Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 01/20/05 14:30

Anirudh Dutt wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:26:07 +0100, Marek Kilimajer <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote:
>
>>akshay wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I hv problem while file upload.
>>>I hv one server and multiple client.
>>>I want to upload a file from Server to client.
>>>how this is possible in PHP
>>
>>This is usualy called download. Is this what you want?
>
>
> yeah. if that's what u're trying, check out the manual page on
> fsockopen: http://php.net/function.fsockopen
>
> the first example will give u an idea of what to do.
>
> [code]
> <?php
> $fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
> if (!$fp) {
> echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
> } else {
> $out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
> $out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
> $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
>
> fwrite($fp, $out);
> while (!feof($fp)) {
> echo fgets($fp, 128);
> }
> fclose($fp);
> }
> ?>
> [/code]
>
> the 02-Dec-2004 01:50 comment is also useful.
>
> anirudh
what you're doing is server => server
What the akshay wants is server => client
The only not yet posted other options are client => client (which is
essentially impossible with PHP, unless you use the server=>server
setup) and client => server (which is called uploading)

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