Resumable downloads when using PHP to send the file?

Question

We are using a PHP scripting for tunnelling file downloads, since we don\'t want to expose the absolute path of downloadable file:

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Answer 1

The top answer has various bugs.

1. The major bug: It doesn't handle Range header correctly. bytes a-b should mean [a, b] instead of [a, b), and bytes a- is not handled.
2. The minor bug: It doesn't use buffer to handle output. This may consume too much memory and cause low speed for large files.

Here's my modified code:

// TODO: configurations here
$fileName = "File Name";
$file = "File Path";
$bufferSize = 2097152;

$filesize = filesize($file);
$offset = 0;
$length = $filesize;
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {
    // if the HTTP_RANGE header is set we're dealing with partial content
    // find the requested range
    // this might be too simplistic, apparently the client can request
    // multiple ranges, which can become pretty complex, so ignore it for now
    preg_match('/bytes=(\d+)-(\d+)?/', $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'], $matches);
    $offset = intval($matches[1]);
    $end = $matches[2] || $matches[2] === '0' ? intval($matches[2]) : $filesize - 1;
    $length = $end + 1 - $offset;
    // output the right headers for partial content
    header('HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content');
    header("Content-Range: bytes $offset-$end/$filesize");
}
// output the regular HTTP headers
header('Content-Type: ' . mime_content_type($file));
header("Content-Length: $filesize");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fileName\"");
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');

$file = fopen($file, 'r');
// seek to the requested offset, this is 0 if it's not a partial content request
fseek($file, $offset);
// don't forget to send the data too
ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');
while ($length >= $bufferSize)
{
    print(fread($file, $bufferSize));
    $length -= $bufferSize;
}
if ($length) print(fread($file, $length));
fclose($file);