Delete file after headers sent

[Collector]

Hi guys,

Is there any way how to delete a file after download headers have been
sent? This code does not work for some reason.

header('Content-type: application/xml');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-length: '.filesize($f));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($f).'"');

if($fp = fopen($f, "rb"))
{
while ($buffer = fread($fp, filesize($f))) print $buffer;
fclose($fp);
}

unlink($f);
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[Frozen]

You may need to CHMOD the file (and possibly the containing folder) to
be writable by the script.

Collector wrote:

Hi guys,

Is there any way how to delete a file after download headers have been
sent? This code does not work for some reason.

header('Content-type: application/xml');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-length: '.filesize($f));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($f).'"');

if($fp = fopen($f, "rb"))
{
while ($buffer = fread($fp, filesize($f))) print $buffer;
fclose($fp);
}

unlink($f);
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[Erwin Moller]

Collector wrote:

>
Hi guys,

Is there any way how to delete a file after download headers have been
sent? This code does not work for some reason.

header('Content-type: application/xml');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-length: '.filesize($f));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($f).'"');

if($fp = fopen($f, "rb"))
{
while ($buffer = fread($fp, filesize($f))) print $buffer;
fclose($fp);
}

unlink($f);

Can you unlink the file anyway?
I seriously doubt the headers are influencing this...

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Collector]

Thanks guys. Nope, it has nothing to do with permissions. I am able to
unlink the file with no problem. After sending download headers it
looks like PHP can execute only the next line (reading and sending out
the file) but nothing else. I was just wondering if there is some
workaround leading to successful deletion of a file after headers of
this type have been sent. Thanks.
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[Jerry Stuckle]

Collector wrote:

Thanks guys. Nope, it has nothing to do with permissions. I am able to
unlink the file with no problem. After sending download headers it
looks like PHP can execute only the next line (reading and sending out
the file) but nothing else. I was just wondering if there is some
workaround leading to successful deletion of a file after headers of
this type have been sent. Thanks.

As Erwin indicated - headers should have nothing to do with this. You
should be able to unlink the file with no trouble.

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[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** Collector escribió/wrote (Fri, 1 Sep 2006 02:49:22 -0400):

while ($buffer = fread($fp, filesize($f))) print $buffer;

Depending of the size of your file, this can make your script run our of
memory and crash, so you after that won't be able to remove the file... or
print "hello word". Try readfile() or, simply don't use the full file size
as buffer size. Actually, I can't see the point of a while loop that's
supposed to be run once.

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