[dc]

i don’t see any of those as being reasons why you can’t publish a log of what was changed with every patch.

it’d be great knowing what files were touched in any given update.

overwriting your entire installation for an alteration of one line of code is generally a very bad way of distributing patches.

[dc]

just a little update:

there seems to be no issue deleting symlinks once the transfer has started.

thus, my final(ish) solution is:

when a request comes for a download, create a temporary, random directory populated with a temporary, random filename. that file is a symbolic link that points to the actual file being requested.

initiate the transfer via the browser using header(Location:).

call an external php file, which runs in the background, waits 30 seconds (to be sure you don’t delete the file before things get going), and then removes the temporary file and temporary directory.

so, you’ve got a very small window in which a temporary, random file location is shown to the client browser. even if they catch it, the link is gone forever in 30 seconds.

all the nifty access restrictions and link duration stuff already included with wp-eStore still function as you would expect.

gotta cleanup this mess of code.. but it looks like i can now serve large downloads..

hooray, method 8!

[dc]

of course.. it’s not without its own set of limitations. for those of us that need to serve large downloads and can use it, however, it seems to be the best workaround. you can never have too many options!

my file sizes and monthly transfer amounts are cost prohibitive for S3. it’s a great service, though… maybe if i can sell enough product i can justify the cost.

cleanup shouldn’t be too bad. i’m thinking a script which checks a file’s age and deletes it if it is beyond a certain threshold. then use cron to run that periodically.

[dc]

with a few tweaks i now have this working as a selectable ‘method 8’.

url obfuscation works as planned, access limits work as they should and best of all – you can download large files with no php timeouts!

now to look into getting the symlinks cleaned up after a certain amount of time.

i also have some things hardcoded which i’d like to move to the user-definable menu settings..

[dc]

i’d rather not pay another fee just to get downloads to work properly

i think the solution is to pass the file off to the browser, thus circumventing the php execution and memory limits entirely.

it’s not the most elegant thing in the world, but i’ve tested it and it works without a hitch with files of all sizes (tested up to 1.5gb).

the basic idea is to create a temporary symbolic link that points to the actual file being requested, use the header(location:) to pass the transfer to the browser, and then clean up/delete the symlink after a designated amount of time/access attempts (just as the other methods currently do).

i’ve got the guts of the symlink creation/transfer working:

<?php

$ran = rand();

$file_name = “mylargefile.zip”;

$path = “/mypath/path/”;

# create a new file of the name: download_randomnumber.zip

$randomFile = sprintf(“download_%s.zip”, $ran);

system(sprintf(‘ln -s %s %s’, $path.$file_name, $randomFile), $retval);

if ($retval != 0) {

die(“Failure to create symbolic link or retrieve download.”);

}

header(“Location: http://www.mydomain.com/pathtosymlinks/$randomFile&#8221;);

?>

still need to sort out cleaning it up, etc. would love some help with making this a bonafide Method 8

[dc]

it is not.

safe mode is set to OFF and max_execution_time is set to 0.

i have tried all methods and downloads still time out prematurely. i am hoping curl might be the answer, although it seems from one of the other threads here that the culprit may be apache and not php.

[dc]

all of my members are the same membership level, but not all members have purchased the same products.

is there a way to check if a member has purchased a product, and if so, display the: [wp_eStore_download_now_button id=x] shortcode on their profile page?

[dc]

awesome – just what i was looking for.

must have missed it in the docs.. sorry about that

is there a way to do something to a member’s profile based on their purchase history? for instance.. i sell downloadable goods. if i want to release an update to a product, i want to be able to provide it free of charge to all members who have purchased the first version.

would be great if i could just say ‘log in to your profile and download the update’.

anything like that?

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