[thelist] PHP Based file download system.

[Tanner Burson]

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Richard Bennett wrote:

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>Hi,
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>From: "Tanner Burson" <tanner at younet.okstate.edu>
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>>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.
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>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.
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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