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The following piece of code handles detection of mime type, file size and existence of the file for you. I always use this piece for buffering files into browser of my users.

         if (file_exists($fileLocation)) {
             header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
             header('Content-Type: ' .mime_content_type($fileLocation));
             header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($fileLocation).'"');
             header('Expires: 0');
             header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
             header('Pragma: public');
             header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($fileLocation));
             readfile($fileLocation);
             exit;
         }

if (file_exists($fileLocation)) {

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

header('Content-Type: ' .mime_content_type($fileLocation));

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($fileLocation).'"');

header('Expires: 0');

header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');

header('Pragma: public');

header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($fileLocation));

readfile($fileLocation);

exit;

}

All you have to do is to change the variable of $filelocation with your own variable which contains the full address of […]

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