HTTP_Download

Send HTTP Downloads

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 1.1.4 (archived versions might be outdated)

License: BSD, revised

Description

Provides an interface to easily send hidden files or any arbitrary data to
HTTP clients. HTTP_Download can gain its data from variables, files or
stream resources.

It features:
- Basic caching capabilities
- Basic throttling mechanism
- On-the-fly gzip-compression
- Ranges (partial downloads and resuming)
- Delivery of on-the-fly generated archives through Archive_Tar and Archive_Zip
- Sending of PgSQL LOBs without the need to read all data in prior to sending

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

Philippe Jausions (jausions) — lead, active
Michael Wallner (mike) — lead, inactive

Dependencies

Required

PHP (>= 4.2.0)
PEAR Installer (>= 1.6.0)
PEAR
HTTP_Header
pcre (extension)

Optional

Archive_Tar
Archive_Zip
MIME_Type
mime_magic (extension)
pgsql (extension)

Releases

1.1.4 (stable, 2010-10-15)
Release notes

License: BSD, revised

+ To play nice with stream without known size (Req #13121)
+ getRanges() too lax (Bug #13124)
+ HTTP protocol specification mis-implementation (Bug #13125)
+ No HTTP error when PHP can't read source file (Bug #16060)
QA release
DIR layout
1.1.3 (stable, 2007-10-31)
Release notes

License: BSD, revised

* Fixed bug #12174 (ob_flush in sendHeaders causes error message)
1.1.2 (stable, 2007-05-02)
1.1.1 (stable, 2006-01-07)
1.1.0 (stable, 2005-11-14)
1.1.0RC3 (beta, 2005-08-01)
1.1.0RC2 (beta, 2005-07-18)
1.1.0RC1 (beta, 2005-05-20)
1.0.0 (stable, 2005-03-25)
1.0.0RC6 (beta, 2005-02-08)
1.0.0RC5 (beta, 2005-01-24)
1.0.0RC4 (beta, 2005-01-19)
1.0.0RC3 (beta, 2005-01-17)
1.0.0RC2 (beta, 2004-12-22)
1.0.0RC1 (beta, 2004-12-01)
0.10.0 (beta, 2004-08-31)
0.9.0 (beta, 2004-07-19)
0.8.1 (beta, 2004-07-08)
0.8.0 (beta, 2004-06-07)
0.7.0 (beta, 2004-05-04)
0.6.2 (beta, 2004-04-20)
0.6.1 (beta, 2004-03-25)
0.6.0 (beta, 2004-03-18)
0.5.2 (beta, 2004-02-24)
0.5.1 (beta, 2003-12-30)
0.5 (beta, 2003-12-19)
0.4 (beta, 2003-11-25)
0.3 (beta, 2003-11-15)
0.2 (alpha, 2003-11-04)
0.1 (alpha, 2003-10-03)

Bugs

ID	Status	Type	Version	Date	Summary
#461	Closed	Bug		2003-12-19	HTTP_Download doesn't work with HTTP_Header-0.1.5
#2110	Closed	Bug		2004-08-11	long delay until "Save as..." popup
#2708	Bogus	Bug		2004-11-06	Last-modified date not applied
#2998	Closed	Bug		2004-12-20	Typo
#3192	Bogus	Bug		2005-01-13	Downloading with IE SP2 causes file block check
#3194	Closed	Bug		2005-01-13	Setting Cache to False blocks downloads
#3209	Bogus	Bug		2005-01-14	Password Protected PDF File Issue
#3231	Closed	Bug		2005-01-18	duplicate else in generateETag()
#3247	Closed	Bug		2005-01-19	set_time_limit() warning when safe_mode is on
#3263	Closed	Bug		2005-01-21	Acrobat hangs on multiple ranges
#3283	Closed	Req		2005-01-24	Use PEAR MIME_Type for guessContentType()
#3313	Closed	Bug		2005-01-27	cannot require HTTP_DOWNLOAD
#3960	Closed	Req		2005-03-25	Allow zlib.output_compression in php.ini
#4049	Closed	Bug		2005-04-04	Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/share/pear/HTTP/
#4304	Closed	Bug		2005-05-07	Apache Process hangs after calling HTTP_Download::send()
#4343	Closed	Bug		2005-05-13	Throttle delay is not set correctly
#4540	Bogus	Bug		2005-06-06	Cache control not properly using max-age
#4754	Closed	Req		2005-07-05	[PATCH] Add cache length to API
#5949	Closed	Bug		2005-11-13	pass-by-reference error
#6432	Closed	Bug		2006-01-06	php5 Fatal error Only variables can be passed by reference
#7462	Wont fix	Req	1.1.1	2006-04-23	sendHeader()
#7659	Bogus	Bug	1.1.1	2006-05-18	strlen() wrongly used to count number of bytes in data buffer
#8039	Bogus	Bug	1.1.1	2006-06-26	Using HTTP_Download with Send a hidden file and streams
#9285	Bogus	Req	CVS	2006-11-08	Respond to HTTP HEAD Request
#9670	Assigned	Bug	CVS	2006-12-21	Notice: ob_end_clean(): failed to delete buffer
#10497	Closed	Bug	1.1.1	2007-03-25	resuming downloads don't send Length
#12174	Closed	Bug	1.1.2	2007-10-02	ob_flush in sendHeaders causes error message
#12372	Feedback	Req	1.1.3	2007-11-01	Need a way to set the Expires header
#12425	Wont fix	Bug	1.1.3	2007-11-11	Don't download file that size bigger that 2GB.
#12804	Closed	Bug	1.1.3	2008-01-01	Fatal Error - Out of memory
#12805	Duplicate	Bug	1.1.3	2008-01-01	Fatal Error - Out of memory
#13121	Closed	Req	1.1.3	2008-02-15	To play nice with stream without known size
#13124	Closed	Bug	CVS	2008-02-15	getRanges() too lax
#13125	Closed	Bug	CVS	2008-02-15	HTTP protocol specification mis-implementation
#16060	Closed	Bug	1.1.3	2009-04-01	no HTTP error when php can't read source file
#16100	Open	Bug	1.1.3	2009-04-15	Dowload of aribitrary zip-files not work with IE 7.0
#16101	Duplicate	Bug	1.1.3	2009-04-15	Dowload of aribitrary zip-files not work with IE 7.0
#16102	Duplicate	Bug	1.1.3	2009-04-15	Dowload of aribitrary zip-files not work with IE 7.0
#17418	Wont fix	Bug	1.1.3	2010-05-20	Deprecated warnings in PHP 5.3
#17703	Closed	Bug	1.1.3	2010-08-14	MimeType validated incorrectly
#18237	Spam	Bug	1.1.4	2011-02-04	s
#18912	Wont fix	Req	1.1.4	2011-10-17	PHP5 E_strict fixes for Pear::isError
#18981	Closed	Bug	1.1.4	2011-11-11	$dl->setData('') results in an infinite loop
#19122	Closed	Bug	SVN	2011-12-10	upgrade PHPUnit require statements (for PEAR QA Team)
#19207	Open	Req	1.1.4	2012-01-09	Content-length isnt sent if a non obtrusive ob_handler is also loaded
#19458	Open	Bug	1.1.4	2012-06-06	sendChunk not sending last payload when size equals multiple of bufferSize
#19656	Open	Bug	1.1.4	2012-10-19	Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated