Posted by Henri on 10/19/07 12:37

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:06:48 +0200, salonowiec wrote:

> Uzytkownik "Jean-Baptiste Nizet" <jnizet@gmail.com> napisal w wiadomosci
> news:1192794161.771509.304950@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
>
>> If what you want to do is sending a gif, jpeg, pdf file or whatever
>> file to the browser and the browser displays it as it would if you had
>> clicked on a direct link to the file, then you must send the mime type
>> of the file in the HTTP response:
>>
>> header("Content-Type: image/gif");
>>
>> for a gif file, for example.
>>
>> With direct links, the web server does it automatically, but if you
>> want to do it in PHP, you have to do it yourself. Read the user
>> comments on http://www.php.net/readfile to see some examples.
>>
>> JB.
>>
> It's working good with this header function, it displays O. K. There is
> another question (I'm probably stubborn): the address line shows
> something like http://www.xxx/vvv/alpha.pdf. And this is my problem -
> can I "force" system (server, browser?) to keep showing
> http://......something.php ? The true reason for this is, that in my PHP
> script I put the code that redirects unlogged user to somewhere. But
> when you remember once only the address http://......./alpha.pdf you
> will reach it any time without logging. Sorry, I'm not sure if it's
> clear enough...

you can use sessions to check if the user is authorized (eg logged in or whatever) to view the content.
Just to this check before actually displaying any content.

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