[thelist] PHP Based file download system.
Tanner Burson
tanner at younet.okstate.edu
Tue Jul 29 13:47:44 CDT 2003
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Richard Bennett wrote:
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>Hi,
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tanner Burson" <tanner at younet.okstate.edu>
>
>
>>My problem is dealing with incomplete downloads. If a user is only
>>allowed to download a file once, how do I track a completed download?
>>Should I just go with a timestamp based system where a user has X amount
>>of time to get the file? Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>If the files are not too large, another way would be to send them to the
>user attached to an email.
>That way they never know the URL, and can spend as long as they like
>downloading it.
>Some email servers have a 1 or 3 meg limit though.
>
>Richard.
>
>
>
I agree that would be a nice method, except we're dealing with hundreds
of megs of data. It would be nice if I could assume all downloads are
successful but as we all know with MSIE its about as likely to crash as
it is complete.
Tanner
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