[thelist] PHP Based file download system.

[Hassan Schroeder]

Tanner Burson wrote:

>                                                    No matter how we go 
> about it there are numerous methods of failure within this system simply 
> because of the limitations of PHP/Apache/HTTP.  I'm just looking for the 
> method that runs into as few of them as possible :)  If anyone has any 
> suggestions other than just allowing a user to have the file available 
> for X many minutes I'd love to hear them, 

Write a small loader that can be downloaded reliably and then run
on the user's machine to handle the full download, with built-in
retry/restart capability. It could even be keyed to a single copy
of the downloaded software, the downloader's IP address/host name
or other restrictions. And once it's run successfully to end, it
could disable itself.

Not a purely Web-based solution, though...
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