How to read file from another FTP host without use host bandwidth transfer

Question

I have a host for store data and a download host (this host doesn\'t have database). I want to read a file from download host in store host and

Answer 1

There's no way to download a contents from the "download host" directly to the client, without providing the client with all the information needed for the download ("download link").

If you need to hide the download information from the client, you need to download the file on the "store host" and then forward it to the client. Hence you are consuming bandwidth data of the "store host". It does not matter what technology, protocol or function you use. And the ftp_get and file_get_contents("ftp://...") use both the same code behind anyway.

Simply said, there's no way to both hide the download information from the client and not use bandwidth data of the "store host".