Question

I can download remote files using PHP but how do you download from a link that pushes headers out? I mean, you can click on some links and it will force a download and present you with dialog box to save the file. How can I download and save this sort of thing using PHP?

Any examples or links to tutorials would be great since I couldn’t find anything useful on this topic.

Thank you for any help

Updated and [SOLVED]

<?php  set_time_limit(300);  // File to download $remoteFile = $_GET['url'];  $file = fopen($remoteFile, 'r');   if (!$file) {     echo '<p>Unable to open remote file.\n';     exit; } $line = '';  while (!feof ($file)) {     $line .= fgets ($file, 4096); }  //readfile($line); file_put_contents('here2.mp4',  $line);  fclose($file);  ?> 

Answer 1

Just tried to reproduce situation. Gubmo is right, this download method works for me with Content-Type: application/octet-stream and Content-type: application/force-download headers.

As explained here, HTTP 410 means that URL requested by the client is no longer available from that system. This is not a ‘never heard of it’ response, but a ‘does not live here any more’ response. Maybe they have some kind of antileach system.

This should be investigated. If they need cookies — stream-context-create can help. Or maybe they check referer. But I am almost sure that problem is not in headers.

Hope this helps.

UPD Sample code you’ve asked about.

// file to download -- application/octet-stream $remoteFile = 'http://dev/test/remote/send.php'; // file to download -- application/force-download $remoteFile = 'http://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Skriabin_Kuzma/Ya_Pobieda_i_Berlin.rtf.zip'; // file to store $localFile = 'kuzma.zip';  $fin = fopen($remoteFile, "r"); if (!$fin) {     die("Unable to open remote file"); }  $fout = fopen($localFile, "w"); if (!$fout) {     die("Unable to open local file"); }  while (!feof($fin)) {     $line = fgets($fin, 1024);     fwrite($fout, $line, 1024); }  fclose($fout); fclose($fin); 

Same as yours.