Posted by Hans van Kranenburg on 09/30/47 11:18

DMacedo wrote:
> Place the PDF outside of the web root and use readfile()
> http://php.net/readfile function after verifying the user in a
> download script, along with this, you should send the needed header()
> http://php.net/header (filesize, type, forcing download if you wish,
> etc).

Additionaly, you can use mod_rewrite to rewrite urls to the script.

e.g. when using http://www.foo.com/download/index.php?f=bar.pdf, the
users save as... box wants to save the file 'index.php'

when you link to http://www.foo.com/download/bar.pdf and use some simple
rewrite rules to internally rewrite /download/bar.pdf to
/download/index.php?f=bar.pdf, the save as... box of the user wants to
save the file as 'bar.pdf'

Hans

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