Comments on: How I PHP: X-SendFile

By: tom

tom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:47:30 +0000

so one of the downfalls i’ve found with this method is that, unlike with the stock PHP header methods, when you have more code after the xsend file code, it doesn’t wait until the filesend is done before executing the code… with the first example it waits until the filesend is done, but not with xsend. this is particularly useful if you need to log the fact that the user had a successful download. if the download failed then the code below the download would just not execute, so the user could download again.

what i’m getting at– is there a way around this with xsendfile? i’m looking for a way to mark that a user has successfully downloaded a complete file in the database, so they can’t download again. as of now using the same code with the xsendfile modifications, it just always marks the file download as successful because of this.

By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:15:53 +0000

downloads got stalled at getting file information at least with IE6.0 (not tested with other IE releases)

suggested hack : Cache-Control: must-revalidate doesn’t work,

any help?

thanks

By: Arnold Daniels

Arnold Daniels — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:20:36 +0000

On http://packages.ubuntu.com you can find which package to install for a specific executable or other file.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=apxs2&mode=exactfilename&suite=jaunty&arch=any

If you’re running PHP as module, install ‘apache2-prefork-dev’.

By: TopFX

TopFX — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:42:53 +0000

I’m also trying to get this to work but cannot get it to install on an Ubuntu Plesk server, it fails to compile.

The server is running Apache2, but if you do a locate search it only finds apxs and not apxs2 as pharrington suggests it should.

I really need to get this working so any ideas would really be appreciated

By: pharrington

pharrington — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:49:36 +0000

Xorax:

what errors did you get when trying to install? remember that with apache2, the program to compile modules is

apxs2

instead of

apxs

also, if for whatever reason you need to manually create the config file (eg Ubuntu), the LoadModule line is:

LoadModule xsendfile_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_xsendfile.so (substitute for the correct path if necessary)

By: Xorax

Xorax — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:55:48 +0000

does someone has compiled this mod for apache 2.2 ?

I tried but I have bad errors….

By: Arnold Daniels

Arnold Daniels — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:43:30 +0000

Hi Fujiko,

For a png, use: header(”Content-type: image/png″);

By: Fujiko Fujio

Fujiko Fujio — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:15:27 +0000

Is there a way to use xsendfile for displaying inline images? I want to display the image in a browser instead of showing the save as dialog box.

By: hese

hese — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:28:08 +0000

Hello,

I have been trying to install and get it working with no succees…

I have test.php:

$file = “video.mp4″;
header(”X-Sendfile: “. $file);
header(”content-type: video/mp4″);

and .htaccess file in same directory that contains:

XSendFile on

I’m using flowplayer (www.flowplayer.org) to read the mp4 file trough test.php and flowplayer gives an error “streamnotfound”.
If i use readfile($file) in php-script. it works…

apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_MODULES shows that xsendfile_module is installed.

Do you have any ideas what would be wrong?

I really really appreciate your help!

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:10:18 +0000

Hi, would it be too much hassle for you to post some (memory usage, cpu usage and speed) benchmarks? Thanks in advance!