quick question about php headers

[SP360]

hello, I have a quick question about php headers.
Say if I use something like this to download a file:

      header("Content-type: application/pdf");
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.pdf;" );
      header("Content-Length: "size); 

Will this waste my servers bandwidth or the server that I'm downloading the content from?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks

[zenovia]

Quick answer:

Yup.

Longer answer:

Anything that is downloaded from your server = bandwidth...period.

[bdl]

header("Content-Length: "size); 

Be aware, you're missing a concatenation operator '.' there. That's a syntax error waiting to happen.

[oesxyl]

hello, I have a quick question about php headers.
Say if I use something like this to download a file:

      header("Content-type: application/pdf");
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.pdf;" );
      header("Content-Length: "size); 

Will this waste my servers bandwidth or the server that I'm downloading the content from?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks

I'm sorry but I don't understand the question. You want or not to allow your visitors to download the pdf? If you want what sense have to ask if this waste server bandwidth?

best regards

[SP360]

Hi there,
The file is located on a different server. The URL will be passed along side the headers above. Then it will be downloaded.
So what I want to find out exactly if the file is not located on my server but called from my server and outputted through the headers, will that waste my bandwidth?

Thanks

[oesxyl]

Hi there,
The file is located on a different server. The URL will be passed along side the headers above. Then it will be downloaded.
So what I want to find out exactly if the file is not located on my server but called from my server and outputted through the headers, will that waste my bandwidth?

Thanks

that make sense. Maybe 2.2 from this link will help you:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt

I never ask myself what happend in this case so I guess,
if user decide to download the attachment the bandwidh will be affected else not affected.

best regards