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user503853
user503853

Reputation:

How to download this PDF file using php

I want to download a pdf file from this link. From the page, select weekly summary, I want download the first pdf.

PDF Weekly summary - Last week: Sorted by insider

I'm using the following code try to download the pdf,

<?php

$file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA";

if (file_exists($file))
{
    if (FALSE!== ($handler = fopen($file, 'r')))
    {
        header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
        header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
        header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: chunked'); //changed to chunked
        header('Expires: 0');
        header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
        header('Pragma: public');
        //header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); //Remove

        //Send the content in chunks
        while(false !== ($chunk = fread($handler,4096)))
        {
            echo $chunk;
        }
    }
    exit;
}
echo "<h1>Content error</h1><p>The file does not exist!</p>";


?>

It seems I can not download using PHP. I can download by myself confirm the popup window. Any suggestions?

I tried curl also, still can not download. The file size is zero.

<?php

    $file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA";

    $path = 'c:\download\output.pdf';

    $ch = curl_init($file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $data = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);

    file_put_contents($path, $data);


?>

Upvotes: 7

Views: 30048

Answers (3)

user503853
user503853

Reputation:

Finally I could download the PDF file with PHP curl and CURLOPT_REFERER setting. Below is the code.

<?php

$url  = 'https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA';
$path = "/pdf/output.pdf";

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTReportsAccessController?menukey=15.03.00&locale=en_CA');

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

$result = file_put_contents($path, $data);

if (!$result) {
    echo "error";
} else {
    echo "success";
}
?>

Upvotes: 13

Rafa
Rafa

Reputation: 56

Also, as mentioned here:

Download a image from SSL using curl?

for https we should add the following:

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Upvotes: 1

supajason
supajason

Reputation: 670

Instead of getting your PHP server to act as a proxy why not just:

<?PHP
$file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA";
header("Location: $file");
?>

Version 2

<?PHP
$file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA";
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.pdf"');
readfile($file);
?>

Version 3

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&locale=en_CA');

Add this line to your original code?

Upvotes: 11

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