Pass font file through PHP - php

Question

I have a website that is set up like this:
client request --> gate.php --> requested file
Every request the client sends goes to gate.php were it is parsed. Gate.php then includes the requested file from a restricted directory so that the client cannot access any file but gate.php.
Gate file:
<?php
$_uri = strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],'?');
$_root = "<root>";
// Index //
switch($_uri) {
case "/": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
case "/css": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
case "/js": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
case "/font": $_uri = "<path>".strtok($_GET["p"],".")."/".$_GET["p"]; break;
case "/ajax": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
case "/signin": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
case "/signup": $_uri = "<path>"; break;
default:
if(substr($_uri,0,8) == "/profile") { // profile
$_uri = "<path>";
$_page = substr($_uri,9);
} else {
header("HTTP/1.1 404");
require_once($_root."<path>");
die();
}
}
!isset($_page) and isset($_GET["p"]) ? $_page = $_GET["p"] : 0;
// Mime //
$_path = explode(".",$_uri);
switch($_path[1]) {
case "php": $_path[2] = "text/html"; break;
case "css": $_path[2] = "text/css"; break;
case "js": $_path[2] = "application/javascript"; break;
case "xml": $_path[2] = "application/xml"; break;
case "svg": $_path[2] = "application/xml+svg"; break;
case "jpg": $_path[2] = "image/jpeg"; break;
case "png": $_path[2] = "image/png"; break;
case "otf": $_path[2] = "x-font/otf"; break;
case "eot": $_path[2] = "x-font/eot"; break;
case "ttf": $_path[2] = "x-font/ttf"; break;
case "woff": $_path[2] = "x-font/woff"; break;
default:
header("HTTP/1.1 500");
require_once($_root."<path>");
die();
}
$_path[2] == "text/html" ? require_once($_root."<path>") : 0;
// File //
header("Content-Type: ".$_path[2]);
require_once($_root."/sys".$_uri);
?>
The problem is, when I pass a font file through the gate, the font file contains the text <? which PHP parses and returns an error.
Is there any way to escape the font file so that PHP does not parse it?

Answer 1

You can only require files that can be interpreted by PHP. If you want to serve other kinds of files through your script, you have to output them by reading them.
Something like:
$file = 'myfontfile.ttf';
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
}