By Niklas Fiekas on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1561362
Description: 

Symfony has a Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\BinaryFileResponse class that can be used to deliver files through PHP to the client. It also supports X-Sendfile and X-Accel-Mapping via BinaryFileResponse::trustXSendfileTypeHeader().

file_transfer() has been dropped in favor of that.

Drupal 7:

return file_transfer($uri, $headers);

Drupal 8:

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\BinaryFileResponse;
...
return new BinaryFileResponse($uri, 200, $headers);

Ref: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_foundation/introduction.h...

Impacts: 
Module developers
Updates Done (doc team, etc.)
Online documentation: 
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Theming guide: 
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Module developer documentation: 
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