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ElRoboto
Minted
Posted on Jul 03, '09 at 11:53 am

Calling Till!

Downloads Pepper is awesome but I’m having mixed results with certain downloads appearing to be corrupt.

I’m using htaccess to force a redirect:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mint1/pepper/tillkruess/downloads/tracker.php?url=http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}&force [NC]

</FilesMatch>

which initiates the download, and tracks the download OK.

With certain pdf’s (It seems to be larger ones - I’ve just tried one over 30MB) I get an error when I try to open the downloaded file: “There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired”

Any ideas what could be happening here? I hope there’s a solution to this as the download tracker is a great addition to mint

ElRoboto
Minted
Posted on Jul 09, '09 at 06:24 am

additional information:

When I test with zip files, the downloaded zip extracts an archive with the same name and a .cpgz extension, which then extracts the original zip file, and repeat.

I’ve considered using the automatic redirection option but I cant seem to get this to track anything - and it doesn’t suit my requirements for multi-site tracking in the same DB.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated…

Till
Third-Party Pepper Developer
Posted on Jul 16, '09 at 06:55 am

Mhh okay, one problem is that with the ´´&force´´ parameter mint completely reads the file which results a lot of server load. I fixed this in the latest 2.22 version. Try this one.

If this doesn’t help, please try another method or combination without the &force parameter. I personally love to abuse the ´´&remote´´ parameter, but be careful with it ; )

ElRoboto
Minted
Posted on Jul 16, '09 at 08:24 am

Thanks for replying Till,

I forgot to mention that I am using v222 already.

I’ve tried removing &force but this results in a report of an infinite loop, I’m not quite sure how you mean the &remote parameter should be used, I’ve tried using it in place of &force but it also results in an infinite loop occurring (or at least my browser reporting this is the case).

I feel like I’ve exhausted all my options when it comes to tweaking and testing with this one

If I remove the rules completely from the htaccess file and place domain.co.uk/capitan/mint1/pepper/tillk … cument.pdf in my address bar it downloads and tracks the file without any issues. If I use domain.co.uk/capitan/mint1/pepper/tillk … .pdf&force the original problem occurs.

Do you have any other suggestions?

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