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Florian Müller
Florian Müller

Reputation: 7785

Import Video from URL and directly pass to visitor for download

I am facing the issue that we are linking a .mp4-File on a shared hosting system, but we'd like to have the link working as a download link. We're doing this with the download attribute in the link:

<a href="https://another-hosting.org/video.mp4" download>

As other threads state, the download attribute is ignored by chrome, firefox and safari due to the fact that the link points to another origin.

To avoid this, my approach would be to include the file via PHP (cURL / File Stream?) and then output it directly with the appropriate content type and content disposition. However, I have no idea how to import the file as a resource and then output it. 

<a href="https://my-hosting.org/download-video.php?file=video.mp4" download>

Can anyone give me a hint which function set of PHP i should consider? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 292

Answers (1)

Nandan Desai
Nandan Desai

Reputation: 397

Try this in your download-video.php maybe?

<?php

$vidFile=$_GET["file"];

$videoURL = "https://another-hosting.org/$vidFile";

header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=video.mp4");
header("Content-Type: video/mp4");

readfile($videoURL);

Upvotes: 1

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