Local downloads: MIME header descriptors

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:41 pm

Hello;

Can't use any download managers (GetWrong, et al) or Windows Media Player 9 to access the file. Apparently you're servig the actual data out through PHP over HTTP. Uh, but there's a slight problem with the configurability of PHP, called headers.

You're able to determine the bitrate and encoding of a MPEG file (seen in Title), so why in the header, the MIME descriptor is "Application Octet Stream" and the structure is "Multi part".
You can install ASP.NET and change that to "multimedia/MPEG-System" or whatever it's supposed to be.

Just a suggestion.

Org Profile · Post by **Phade** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:46 am

Hey,

I'm sorry, but, good grief, you are retarded. PHP can put out any mime header. I have configured the system to hand out a video as a file for downloading and saving on your hard drive while defeating "download accelerators" by limiting the number of possible connections to the sytem by tracking them and comparing the time since last download attempt. This allows you to download a video while saving bandwidth against misconfigured "download accelerators". Your suggested solution is "install ASP.NET" to change the header? Please educate yourself before posting techinical "solutions".

Phade.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:28 am

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:52 am

Oops, my bad. Sorry.

Never thought that was intentional. For all that I knew, the only header that php sould send out was "x-text/html" or such. Being a Non PHP user, you're obviously much much more qualified than I am on these issues.

Just wanted to let you know, Windows Media Player gives a lame "Warning" message box when opening octet stream mime. And doesn't work very well because of the 1 second automatic thing.

So really, I guess your method works better. Guess there's no watching AMVs while d/l then.