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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:23:23+00:00

I’ve looked through the site and can’t find an answer to my question. I’m

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I’ve looked through the site and can’t find an answer to my question. I’m trying to make a winrar file (which is 1GB) downloadable from my server and whenever I try, it gives me a winrar file with the same name that is only like 9kb. Here’s what I have for the headers. I’m really new to downloadable content so, don’t make fun of me. 😀

header('Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="java.rar" ');

I’m assuming that I need more. hahaha!
I keep seeing people use header('Content-type: application/pdf'); above their disposition. Does this support rar format, or do I need to use it as zip?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Probably your script is timing out and only a small part from 1GB file is being sent. You may try increasing time limit but IMO for such a big file you’ll have to link directly to make it downloadable.

    If you want to count file downloads you may link to a php script which will increase the counter and redirect browser directly to the file afterwards.

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