Question

is it possible to download file larger than 200 mb onto my web hosting directly so that i dont have to download that file to my computer and then upload using my ftp client.
and as i am not using ssh i cannot use wget. i was thinking of php or per or cgi may be..
(open to all ideas..)

+==============+                                  +--------+
|  Big server  | -----------+                +--->|web host|
+==============+            |   +------+     |    +--------+
                            +-->| MyPC |-----+        |
                                +------+              |     +========+
                                                      +---->| client |
                                                            +========+

or

+============+
| Big Server | ---+
+============+    |                      +----------+
                  +--------------------->| Web Host |
                                         +----------+
                                            |
   +------+                                 |      +========+
   | MyPC |                                 +----->| client |
   +------+                                        +========+

plz help….

Answer 1

For cURL

$url = "http://path.com/file.zip";
$fh = fopen(basename($url), "wb");
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fh);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);