Mp3 Download not functioning

Question

I'm offering a sermon downloading site and I have a user experiencing an issue with his download. Anyone have any ideas on how I can improve this code, or perhaps send better headers...

$path = "http://www.domain.com/sermon_files/".date("Y", $array["preached"])."/".$array["filename"];
$corePath = "/home/user/public_html/sermon_files/".date("Y", $array["preached"])."/".$array["filename"];
if (!file_exists($corePath)) {
    echo "An error has occured with this download.";    
} else {
    header("Pragma: public"); // required
    header("Expires: 0");
    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    header("Cache-Control: private", false); 
    header("Content-Type: audio/mp3");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$array["title"]."\";" );
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
    header("Content-Length: ".filesize($corePath));
    readfile($path);
    exit();
}

maybe because you have to be logged to download it or for statistics purpose. — RageZ, Dec 01 '09 at 03:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '09 at 03:50

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Combine your PHP ( ? ) code with a server with X-Send available, lighttpd has it so does apache

answered Dec 01 '09 at 03:50

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '09 at 04:19

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Watch out for Expires: 0 on downloads. This messes with IE6's tiny little brain and makes it think there is no data to save/open. Try expiring in a minute from access and see if that fixes the problem. Otherwise, tell us exactly what the problem is.

answered Dec 01 '09 at 04:19

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Take a look at this thread, I had similar problems: PHP: Force file download and IE, yet again. Also consider using Fiddler to capture the exact HTTP headers that are being sent to the client.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Dec 01 '09 at 07:02

Alex Weinstein

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Mp3 Download not functioning

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