Sometimes files to be downloaded need to be protected, for example when download is available only for registered users of a website. To do this we need to make a “wrapper” script which checks if the file to be downloaded is available or not and we have to put the file in a place on our web server where they cannot be accessed through a url. But using Internet Explorer we can have some trouble to let our users download the files correctly. Now I’ll make an example using PHP as server-side scripting language.
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