Redirected site files for desktop downloader

Question

Hi, i temporarily change place for static files on site. But this files must have access from old URL, i've create a script that make's redirect to the right place, but this files are downloading by third-part program.

The problem is that program ignoring redirect. I tryed to use permanent redirecting but no success.

Answer 1

Okay, so a redirect doesn't work.

What you can do is read the file in PHP and output it directly. You can use the function readfile() to do that.

readfile($filename);