Class yii\web\Response

Clears the headers, cookies, content, status code of the response.

Returns the cookie collection.

Through the returned cookie collection, you add or remove cookies as follows,

// add a cookie
$response->cookies->add(new Cookie([
    'name' => $name,
    'value' => $value,
]);

// remove a cookie
$response->cookies->remove('name');
// alternatively
unset($response->cookies['name']);

Returns Content-Disposition header value that is safe to use with both old and new browsers.

Fallback name:

• Causes issues if contains non-ASCII characters with codes less than 32 or more than 126.
• Causes issues if contains urlencoded characters (starting with %) or % character. Some browsers interpret filename="X" as urlencoded name, some don't.
• Causes issues if contains path separator characters such as \ or /.
• Since value is wrapped with ", it should be escaped as \".
• Since input could contain non-ASCII characters, fallback is obtained by transliteration.

UTF name:

• Causes issues if contains path separator characters such as \ or /.
• Should be urlencoded since headers are ASCII-only.
• Could be omitted if it exactly matches fallback name.

Returns the header collection.

The header collection contains the currently registered HTTP headers.

Determines the HTTP range given in the request.

Initializes this component.

Prepares for sending the response.

The default implementation will convert $data into $content and set headers accordingly.

See also:

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#page-53
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#page-18

Redirects the browser to the specified URL.

This method adds a "Location" header to the current response. Note that it does not send out the header until send() is called. In a controller action you may use this method as follows:

return Yii::$app->getResponse()->redirect($url);

In other places, if you want to send out the "Location" header immediately, you should use the following code:

Yii::$app->getResponse()->redirect($url)->send();
return;

In AJAX mode, this normally will not work as expected unless there are some client-side JavaScript code handling the redirection. To help achieve this goal, this method will send out a "X-Redirect" header instead of "Location".

If you use the "yii" JavaScript module, it will handle the AJAX redirection as described above. Otherwise, you should write the following JavaScript code to handle the redirection:

$document.ajaxComplete(function (event, xhr, settings) {
    var url = xhr && xhr.getResponseHeader('X-Redirect');
    if (url) {
        window.location = url;
    }
});

Refreshes the current page.

The effect of this method call is the same as the user pressing the refresh button of his browser (without re-posting data).

In a controller action you may use this method like this:

return Yii::$app->getResponse()->refresh();

Sends the response to the client.

Sends the response content to the client.

Sends the specified content as a file to the browser.

Note that this method only prepares the response for file sending. The file is not sent until send() is called explicitly or implicitly. The latter is done after you return from a controller action.

See also sendFile() for an example implementation.

Sends the cookies to the client.

Sends a file to the browser.

Note that this method only prepares the response for file sending. The file is not sent until send() is called explicitly or implicitly. The latter is done after you return from a controller action.

The following is an example implementation of a controller action that allows requesting files from a directory that is not accessible from web:

public function actionFile($filename)
{
    $storagePath = Yii::getAlias('@app/files');

    // check filename for allowed chars (do not allow ../ to avoid security issue: downloading arbitrary files)
    if (!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]+\.[a-z0-9]+$/i', $filename) || !is_file("$storagePath/$filename")) {
        throw new \yii\web\NotFoundHttpException('The file does not exists.');
    }
    return Yii::$app->response->sendFile("$storagePath/$filename", $filename);
}

See also:

• sendContentAsFile()
• sendStreamAsFile()
• xSendFile()

Sends the response headers to the client.

Sends the specified stream as a file to the browser.

Note that this method only prepares the response for file sending. The file is not sent until send() is called explicitly or implicitly. The latter is done after you return from a controller action.

See also sendFile() for an example implementation.

Sets a default set of HTTP headers for file downloading purpose.

Sets the response status code.

This method will set the corresponding status text if $text is null.

Sets the response status code based on the exception.

Sends existing file to a browser as a download using x-sendfile.

X-Sendfile is a feature allowing a web application to redirect the request for a file to the webserver that in turn processes the request, this way eliminating the need to perform tasks like reading the file and sending it to the user. When dealing with a lot of files (or very big files) this can lead to a great increase in performance as the web application is allowed to terminate earlier while the webserver is handling the request.

The request is sent to the server through a special non-standard HTTP-header. When the web server encounters the presence of such header it will discard all output and send the file specified by that header using web server internals including all optimizations like caching-headers.

As this header directive is non-standard different directives exists for different web servers applications:

• Apache: X-Sendfile
• Lighttpd v1.4: X-LIGHTTPD-send-file
• Lighttpd v1.5: X-Sendfile
• Nginx: X-Accel-Redirect
• Cherokee: X-Sendfile and X-Accel-Redirect

So for this method to work the X-SENDFILE option/module should be enabled by the web server and a proper xHeader should be sent.

Note

This option allows to download files that are not under web folders, and even files that are otherwise protected (deny from all) like .htaccess.

Side effects

If this option is disabled by the web server, when this method is called a download configuration dialog will open but the downloaded file will have 0 bytes.

Known issues

There is a Bug with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 when X-SENDFILE is used over an SSL connection, it will show an error message like this: "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.". You can work around this problem by removing the Pragma-header.

Example

Yii::$app->response->xSendFile('/home/user/Pictures/picture1.jpg');

See also sendFile().