Are you sure there aren't any errors happening there? Check the file you downloaded using e.g. notepad..

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being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
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the status of the bug back to "Open".

I have a similar problem with PHP 5.2.4 / 5.2.5 with Apache2.2 under Windows 2003.

Downloaded files are missing exactly 15 bytes at the end. ZIP and RAR files can't be opened correctly after download but definitely are okay on the server's hard drive.

With
$filesize=filesize($filename)+15;
the downloads are working.



$size = @filesize($filename)+15;
header('Pragma: public');
[...]
header("Content-Length: $size");
$fp = @fopen($filename, 'rb');
[...]
while (!feof($fp)){
	echo fread($fp, 8192);
}
fclose($fp);
[...]
flush();

I have the very same problem, but my host server is PHP Version 4.3.11 with Linux OS, i use the following code snippest to recieve the file from form and upload it to a BLOB field in SQL, the code works fine with all file extensions, except rar and zip files, they mostly are corrupted.

upload.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST['upload']) && $_FILES['userfile']['size'] > 0)
{
$fileName = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
$tmpName  = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$fileSize = $_FILES['userfile']['size'];
$fileType = $_FILES['userfile']['type'];

$fp      = fopen($tmpName, 'r');
$content = fread($fp, filesize($tmpName));
$content = addslashes($content);
fclose($fp);

if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
    $fileName = addslashes($fileName);
}

include('conf.php');
// open database connection
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) 
or die ('Unable to connect!');
// select database
mysql_select_db($db) 
or die ('Unable to select database!');

$query = "INSERT INTO upload (name, size, type, content ) ".
"VALUES ('$fileName', '$fileSize', '$fileType', '$content')";

mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed ' . mysql_error());
?> 

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

download.php
<?php
if(isset($_GET['id'])) 
{
// if id is set then get the file with the id from database
include('conf.php');
// open database connection
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) 
or die ('Unable to connect!');
// select database
mysql_select_db($db) 
or die ('Unable to select database!');
$id    = $_GET['id'];
$query = "SELECT name, type, size, content " .
         "FROM upload WHERE id = '$id'";

$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');
list($name, $type, $size, $content) = mysql_fetch_array($result);
header("Content-length: $size");
header("Content-type: $type");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
}
php echo $content; 
?>

Please try without any Content-Length header, your HTTP server is probably using a chunked transfert encoding. Also try with a Content-Type like 'application/octet-stream'.

Also check the character_set_* variables in your MySQL connection, the server may try to convert the query or the results if some variables do not match (blobs are binary but queries and results are not).

I've used this code but the download rate is very slow compared to ordinary download. whether there is any way to overcome this?

Using strlen of the blob instead of filesize in the header works for me.

Example - 

header("Content-Length: ".strlen($blob_data));

Hope this helps someone.

Also having issues using the same script. I get no errors when downloading files with sizes below 20Mb.

From 20Mb files are perfectly downloaded via FTP but are saved with a corrupted file size (0Kb) when downloaded via PHP. Tryed the solution proposed by "webmaster at anpera dot net" too but I had no success.

Tryed without Content-Lenght header with no effect. Also tryed with different Content-Types (e.g. 'application/octet-stream','application/force-download','application/zip').

I am on PHP 5.2.8 with Apache 2.2.11 under Linux

I have the same issue with PHP 4.449 and 4.1.2.0 mysql. and worked fine with pervious version. can somone shed some light on this?
here is the code I'm using
mysql_select_db($database_tred, $conn);
$query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM Files WHERE Files.FileID = %s", $TID_Recordset1);
$result = MYSQL_QUERY($query, $tred)or die(mysql_error());
$data = MYSQL_RESULT($result,0,"filename"); 
$type = MYSQL_RESULT($result,0,"filetype");
$filesize =  MYSQL_RESULT($result,0,"filesize");
$file = MYSQL_RESULT($result,0,"bin_data");
if($result) {
header("Content-Tranfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= $data");
header("Content-length: $filesize");
header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");
print ($file);

Hello,

I have created Mobile Software Secured download website.

When user click on download link that time opening box to Download file.

When Download Click on 'OK' button that time Succesfully downloaded after Deleted that file and directory.

But, When Download Click on 'Cancel' Button that time also Deleted that file and directory. Actually Click on 'Cancel' button and user not Downloaded.

Please i have need to help to Why we know file downloaded Successfully or not.

If you can not understand my problem than aslo reply me.

Thanks & Regards
Manish Bhuva

let try this , i think it's ok

$file = @fopen($download_location,"rb");
if($fopen != NULL)
{		
        header("Pragma: public");
	header("Expires: 0");
	header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
	header("Cache-Control: public");
	header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
	header("Content-Type: application/force-download",FALSE);
	header("Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed",FALSE);
	header("Content-Type: application/download", FALSE); 
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$this->FileName\"");
	header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
	header("Content-Length: " . filesize($download_location) + 100);			
	fpassthru($fopen);			
	fclose($fopen);
	exit();
}