Hmm, maybe I should simply add the necessary mime-type to my apache config. I was just trying to find a way for situations where I have PHP at hand but cannot change/add to the mime-types...

I think that your issue might be linked to MIME types, as suggested in another reply or in the filename. My suggestion is actually that you nest the php in a URL and then use PATH_INFO to serve the content and get the parameters to the PHP script. A couple of examples:

http://mobile.example.com/download/check.php/image.gif
http://mobile.example.com/download/check.php/123456789abcdef/image.gif
The difference is that in the first case you are passing a parameter, image.gif, and the script check.php will identify the file and deliver it. In the second case you are also passing a session id, 123456789abcdef. This can be another step further to log and protect your contents. Store session information in a database and get file and user info from your database. Very useful when you want to generate statistics about how many time a user downloaded a content, which user-agent requested the contents and so on.
Another easy thing to do to protect your content is to store the user-agent string and block any other request with a different user-agent string.

When delivering a content file with a script you will have to manage the HTTP headers. It is required that you set the appropriate MIME type and it is also good practice to specify the file size.

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you can add the mime types to your .htaccess

here are the mime types for 3gp files:

addType audio/3gpp 3gp
addType video/3gpp 3gp

also i suggest you to use mod rewrite for your download script because some browsers would get an error like unsuported while downloading from download.php, here is an example of mine:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^file([0-9]+).(3gp) ./download.php?video=$1 [L]

and small example of download php:

header('Content-type: video/3gpp');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$video.'.3gp"');
readfile('http://server.mobi/'.$video.'.3gp');

and link to video download would look like http://mysite.mobi/file123.3gp

and your mobile would download it as file123.3gp in best case header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$video.'.3gp"'); works with your mobile you would download it as 123..3gp my script is a bit different but i hope i explained how it works :)

I tried this method and I'm getting a malformed response when I hit the file. The redirect seems to be working fine. And the file is there.

My .htaccess file:

addType audio/3gpp 3gp
addType video/3gpp 3gp

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+).(3gp) ./stream.php?v=$1 [L]

My stream.php file:

<?php
header('Content-type: video/3gpp');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$_GET["v"].'.3gp"');
readfile('server.com/'.$_GET["v"].'.3gp');
?>

My HTML link:

video.3gp

Her's a piece of code I wrote a while back that does excactly what you want:

<?php
$reqfile = "path/to/file.3gp";
$contenttype="video/3gpp";
 
if($fn=fopen($reqfile, "rba")){
  header("Content-Type: ".$contenttype); 
  header("Content-Length: ".filesize($reqfile)); 
  header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
  header("Pragma: no-cache");
  header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 06:00:00 GMT");
  header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
  fpassthru($fn);
  fclose($fn);
}else{
  exit("error....");
}
exit();
?>

Also be careful about spaces/linebreaks outside the <?php and ?> ....

Hi! (hej! ;) )

I am testing and playing around with your code as a "proof of concept" exercise before a project.

What I really want to do is to stream the 3gp file!
So the browser in my Nokia N95 doesnt ask if I want to dowload the file, downloads and plays in realplayer, but instead, buffers a bit and starts to stream it to realplayer straight away!

Can I modify the above code with other headers etc do achive this?

Many thanks!!!

Henrik

Hej.

In order to stream a 3gp file you need a streaming server that supports RTSP (real time streaming protocol). So I'm afraid you wont be able to do that with php and a webserver. You can try some of the opensource ones

-- Jon Arne S.

Hey GumSlone.

I have been trying to get my page to work forever now! Came across this code and it works a charm.
One thing though.

I am not using the MOD rewrite but rather serving it straight up. The thing is, my filename is showing up as download_handler instead of the file name... any idea why this is happening? And could you suggest a way to get it the name it should be?

Here's my code:
<?php
header('Content-type: video/3gpp');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$video.'.3gp"');
readfile('http://www.myserver.com/mobile/video/'.$video.'.3gp');
exit();
?>

and I call it like this: a href="http://www.myserver.com/mobile/download_handler.php?video=shark"

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Morg

Thanks for the code, i'm using it and its working fine