Hiding a link to binary file for download

[David Dudek]

Thanks!  Would this page be the same one that they arrive to AFTER they
fill out the form?

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David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mark Musone wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:57:10 -0400
> From: Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: Hiding a link to binary file for download
>
> This is a fairly common use of php.
>
> What you'll want to do is use a combination of fopen(), to open the
> file,
> And then fpassthru(), which outputs the file to the users browser..
>
> The user thinks they are accessing http://www.domain.com/myscript.php
>
>
> But in myscript.php, it has
>
> <?php
>
> $fp=fopen("myfile");
> fpassthru($fp)
> ?>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> David Dudek
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:13 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: PHP: Hiding a link to binary file for download
>
> Here's a question for Mark or anyone else who cares to answer:
>
> I want to set up a webpage that will allow me to log who is downloading
> certain binary files from a web site.  I intend to do this by having a
> page that a user has to authenticate to, in my case by DCE/Kerberos, so
> that the $REMOTE_USER environment variable is assigned.  I know how to
> do
> that part.  I might have the user then fill out a form for some info.
> But then (here's the part I don't know about) I want to redirect the
> user
> to the URL for a binary file download, but I don't want the user to see
> the direct URL.  In other words, I don't want users to be able to bypass
> my form to download the file.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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