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    copied!<p>I want to download a pdf file from <a href="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTReportsAccessController?menukey=15.03.00&amp;locale=en_CA" rel="nofollow">this link</a>. From the page, select weekly summary, I want download the first pdf.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&amp;locale=en_CA" rel="nofollow">PDF</a> Weekly summary - Last week: Sorted by insider</p> <p>I'm using the following code try to download the pdf,</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&amp;locale=en_CA"; if (file_exists($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 "&lt;h1&gt;Content error&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;The file does not exist!&lt;/p&gt;"; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>It seems I can not download using PHP. I can download by myself confirm the popup window. Any suggestions?</strong></p> <p>I tried curl also, still can not download. The file size is zero.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $file="https://www.sedi.ca/sedi/SVTWeeklySummaryACL?name=W1ALLPDFI&amp;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); ?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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