Posted by Rory Browne on 08/17/05 21:21

Just for your information there was a topic on this a few months ago.

It definately wasn't intentional - Rasmus didn't know about it until then.

On 8/17/05, Jordan Miller <jmil@hymiegladstone.com> wrote:
> turns out it's a known bug, fixed in CVS already... haven't tried the
> PHP 5.1 beta release yet.
>
> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32970
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Catalin Trifu wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Indeed a fclose($fp) is needed (wrote it as an example :)).
> > 1MB is more than enough as a buffer. If you have a 53MB file,
> > what will happen then ?
> > I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature. Either way I did lose
> > some hair over this when I switched from PHP4 to PHP5.
> >
> > Catalin
> >
> >
> > Jordan Miller wrote:
> >
> >> Catalin,
> >> Wow, that worked great, thanks.
> >> I'm curious why you set a static buffer of 1024768... why not just
> >> do filesize($file), as shown at http://www.php.net/fread ? Is it
> >> better for memory usage to have a potentially smaller buffer?
> >> Also, you may want an fclose($fp) after the file has been
> >> downloaded.
> >> So is this a bug in PHP 5 or are they just purposely limiting the
> >> abilities of the "readfile" command?
> >> Jordan
> >> On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Catalin Trifu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've had a similar problem. The download always stopped at
> >>> exactly 2.000.000 bytes.
> >>> You have to work around that with:
> >>> $fp = fopen($file, 'r');
> >>> if($fp) {
> >>> while(!feof($fp)) {
> >>> echo fread($fp, 1024768);//see the huge buffer to read into
> >>> }
> >>> } else {
> >>> //whatever error handler
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Catalin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jordan Miller wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>> I am new to this list and I have searched the archives to no
> >>>> avail. I am having a peculiar problem when upgrading to PHP 5:
> >>>> My downloads are now limited to the first 1.9 MB of the file
> >>>> in question, with the download either terminating at 1.9 MB
> >>>> or seemingly continuously stuck in a downloading process at
> >>>> 1.9 MB. The code in the PHP script has not changed and all
> >>>> parameters that I could find that are relevant to this problem
> >>>> are given below:
> >>>> the minimal code needed for download:
> >>>> // $file_to_read is the complete path of the file to
> >>>> download
> >>>> header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
> >>>> header( "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=
> >>>> \"$filename \"");
> >>>> $len = filesize($file_to_read);
> >>>> header("Content-Length: $len");
> >>>> @readfile($file_to_read);
> >>>> php.ini file for both php version 4 and 5 contain the
> >>>> following settings that may be relevant:
> >>>> allow_url_fopen = On
> >>>> max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each
> >>>> script, in seconds
> >>>> max_input_time = 300 ; Maximum amount of time each script
> >>>> may spend parsing request data
> >>>> memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may
> >>>> consume (8MB)
> >>>> post_max_size = 200M
> >>>> upload_max_filesize = 200M
> >>>> Some additional details:
> >>>> All files less than 1.9 MB download fine
> >>>> It is not a corrupted file, because all files larger than 1.9
> >>>> MB fail after 1.9 MB
> >>>> The connection is not timing out (download of 1.9 MB takes only
> >>>> ~15 sec)
> >>>> Mac OS X 10.3.9 with Marc Liyanage's PHP 5.0.4
> >>>> Fails for both Safari and Firefox
> >>>> Fails regardless of "inline" or "attachment"
> >>>> Fails regardless of "pdf" or "ppt" content-type
> >>>> This PHP code ALWAYS works for Marc Liyanage's PHP 4.3.4 with
> >>>> the same settings, above
> >>>> What am I doing wrong??? Any other parameter in php.ini I
> >>>> should have set? Any suggestions are much appreciated.
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>> Jordan
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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