[thelist] PHP Based file download system.

Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be
Tue Jul 29 14:34:02 CDT 2003


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.



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