Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
you could use htaccess like this in the folder with the videos
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.MP4 mp4.php?x=$1 [nc]
this makes all requests for capital letter version "example.MP4" go to a file called mp4.php
Code:
<?php
$x = $_GET['x'];
$file = "$x.mp4";
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
} else {
echo "bad request";
}
?>
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This is great THANK YOU!
Before reading your post I came across a recomendation to add this to my .htaccess
AddType application/octet-stream .mp4
<FilesMatch "\.(docx?|txt|mp4?)$">
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment"
</FilesMatch>
So far what this does is allows my jwplayer to play .mp4 files, but when a link with an .mp4 file is clicked, the user is prompted to download the file. So I don't need two copies of the video file.
Do you see any drawback to this? I'm not big on programming and have no idea if this doesn't work for everyone.