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I have a script that I'm using on my site where users click a link, and it allows them to download/save a file. This is important for two reasons -- we want them to save the file (not just play it in their browser), and we also want to hide the link of the file, so it can't be hotlinked to. So, the script, which I borrowed from another site, and made some minor modifications to:...

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Poop. Unfortunately, the files that we want to force people to download are on another server from where they're being downloaded (they're video files, that require their own server to be processed and stored on). The script you've linked to uses functions that won't go across servers...at least not with PHP 4.