Hey everyone, I posted something this morning that had some code which allowed a client to view their raw http/ftp/ssl logs for their domain hosted on a server. I'd like to give them the opportunity to download the rawfile as well. Since the file itself is not within webspace, but rather in my /var/log/ directory, I can't make a direct link to the file, which is good since I'd rather not have one client download another's logfile! A quick search and I found this which shows the code to download a file, but I am looking for an understanding of how I can do something like "Click here to download your access log" all within that same code that I mentioned before.

humbly -c

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