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stareagle
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how to delete file if press cancel download

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how to delete file when user press cancel button in dialog (download file)

i use this code to auto download zip file from server

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header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($archiveName).";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($archiveName)

when user cancel download i want to delete this file
i put this code after that

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unlink($archiveName);

but it's not work in case cancel in save its work
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Re: how to delete file if press cancel download

Post by AbraCadaver »

stareagle wrote:how to delete file when user press cancel button in dialog (download file)

i use this code to auto download zip file from server

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header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false);
header("Content-Type: application/zip");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($archiveName).";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($archiveName)

when user cancel download i want to delete this file
i put this code after that

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unlink($archiveName);

but it's not work in case cancel in save its work
That should delete it from the server if the web server has write permissions to the file.
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