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Patrick
Patrick

Reputation:

Using X-Sendfile with Apache/PHP

I can't seem to find much documentation on X-Sendfile or example code for PHP (there is some rails code).

Anyone used it before and would mind giving a quick snippet of code and a brief description?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 36842

Answers (2)

Don Neufeld
Don Neufeld

Reputation: 23248

X-Sendfile is an HTTP header, so you want something like this:

header("X-Sendfile: $filename");

Your web server picks it up if correctly configured. Here's some more details:

http://www.jasny.net/articles/how-i-php-x-sendfile/

Upvotes: 31

Garrett Albright
Garrett Albright

Reputation: 2841

If tweaking the web server configuration is not an option, consider PHP's standard readfile() function. It won't be quite as fast as sendfiling, but it will be more widely compatible. Also note that when doing this, you should also send a Content-Type header at the very least.

Upvotes: 3

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