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I know this can be done using PHP but because ExpressionEngine has its own way of doing things it’s not working as expected.  That or I am not doing it correctly.
I just want to be able to force downloads of certain files (mp3, pdf, etc) instead of having them play in the browser.

I’m passing a link like this:

{exp:channel:entries ... }
<a href="http://.../download?file={my_file_url}">Download audio</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

And in the “download” template with PHP enabled I have:

<?php
  $file = $_REQUEST["file"];
  header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
  header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file));
  header('Content-Description: File Transfer');  
  header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="download.mp3"');
  readfile($file);
?>

When run I get a file with the entire URL path (replacing the slashes with dashes) containing only this:
Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 18158324 bytes) in public_html/dev/system/expressionengine/libraries/Functions.php(679) : eval()‘d code on line 1

Any ideas?  Thanks…

Simply add the following to the end of your .htaccess file and remove all that php code in your templates.

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:mp3)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

Stefan

But, if I move upload folder to out of wwwroot, it will be invisible for http request directly. It mush use PHP to read and output this file content.