Force Download Without Spending Bandwith

Discussion in 'PHP' started by SNaRe, Jun 26, 2009.

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    I want to force my users to download video. But when i link to video and enter to that url it automaticly streams video. But i want them to save it to their computer.
    There is a way for this. headers & readfile but this need bandwith which is not good for me.

    If you have any idea solution maybe javascript or some other solution for this let me know please
     
    SNaRe, Jun 26, 2009 IP
  2. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    You should be able to embed a video from another website. When the user clicks on it, it would be streamed from the server it is being hosted on and not your own server.
     
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  3. SNaRe

    SNaRe Well-Known Member

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    I'm grabbing from facebook. When i click on it , it streams in browser it's not embeded or something directly mp4 format
     
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    buchin Active Member

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    You can use PHP to do that.. By sending appropiate header() function so the content will be downloaded instead on streaming
     
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    SNaRe Well-Known Member

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    I think you didn't read my post.
    I already did it. But now problem is when i send url with header it automaticly starts to stream video.

     
    SNaRe, Jun 26, 2009 IP