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POfread a lot slower for downloads than readfile
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I'm serving downloads from a URL to my users through a PHP script. When using <code>readfile()</code> I get the maximum download speed my connection can support (about 2.5MB/s) however when I use the <code>fopen, fread, fclose</code> route the download speed is very, very slow (about 1-2KB/s). Here's my code: <pre><code>header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Expires: 0'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate'); header('Pragma: public'); header('Content-Length: ' . $filesize); ob_clean(); flush(); $file = fopen($url, 'rb'); while(!feof($file)) { echo fread($file, 2014); } </code></pre> and the readfile code is simply <code>readfile($link);</code>. I can't just use the <code>readfile()</code> function because of two reasons, one is I want to restrict the users download speed (which I can do with <code>fread</code> by only reading so much data) and I also want to track how much a user is downloading (I can do this with <code>readfile()</code> but it doesn't count partial downloads). Does anyone know why this might be happening or how I can fix it? As far as I know <code>readfile()</code> is just a wrapper for <code>fopen, fread and fclose</code> so I don't get what's going wrong. Edit: Ended up going with cURL for this. <pre><code>$curl = curl_init(); $options = array( CURLOPT_URL => $rdLink, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => true, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION => 'readResponse' ); curl_setopt_array($curl, $options); if(!curl_exec($curl)) { header('Location: http://whatever.com'); exit; } curl_close($curl); function readResponse($ch, $data) { $length = mb_strlen($data, '8bit'); echo $data; return $length; } </code></pre>
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<php><download><fopen><readfile>
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fread a lot slower for downloads than readfile
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