Question

I am using Curl to download files from location

function get_data($url)
{
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 5;
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); 
  header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=zipfile.tar.gz");
  echo $data;
}

$rt = get_data('http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/13.37/multimedia/umplayer.tar.gz');

This does download files , but am not able to open it.Is it mandatory to mention proper Content-Type ? And am using this script for videos , so i tried with Content-Type : Video , but still its not proper.

Answer 1

Set CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER to TRUE and change the content type.

<?php

$url = "http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/13.37/multimedia/umplayer.tar.gz";
$opts = array(
  CURLOPT_URL =>$url,
  CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE => "text/xml",
  CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER => TRUE,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, $opts);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

header("Content-Type: application/x-gzip"); 
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=zipfile.tar.gz");

echo $data;
?>