Possible browser timeout?

axxessdeny

Hello everyone ... I know there have been many posts here about upload timeouts ... but I have a problem that pretty much has me bald by now! I have a client who is using a dial up connection. The website gives the client a form to add a new vehicle to the database, and then depending on how many images he specifes the code will give him the same number of file upload boxes. He is uploading jpg images usually about 120 kb each. The problem occurs when he is uploading 10 or more (not uncommon to be adding 20 pictures per vehicle). The php.ini has a timeout of 900 sec., IIS has a connection timeout at 900 sec. and CGI scripts in the master settings has a timeout of 900 sec. I even have set_time_out(0) (infinite I believe). Everything works but approx 5 minutes into the uploading, I receive a "Page cannot be displayed." Any ideas? I will post the scripts here now:

---The upload script---
<form action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<table align="center">
<font size="+1">Select the images to be uploaded:</font><br>
<?
for($i=1;$i<=$num_images;$i++){
set_time_limit(0);
?>
<tr><td>
Image # <? print $i;?></td><td><input type="file" name="upload_file[]"><br>
</tr>
<?
}
?>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="vid" value="<? print $row['VehicleId']; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="year" value="<? print $year; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="make" value="<? print $make; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="model" value="<? print $model; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="num_images" value="<? print $num_images; ?>">
<center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload">

</form>

The problem from what my tests show is that while IE is uploading these files it is also calling upload.php, and it is during this calling of upload.php that the timeout occurs...

Any ideas?!

elementaluk

umm...just a comment: your adding infinite time out in your loop, in my exp with set_time_limit, setting it to 0 will give you weird result, like PHP ignoring it.

If your using 0 as your time limit dont put it in a loop, because if I create a script like:
foreach($blah as $blah)
{
set_time_limit(10);
}
this will ADD 10 seconds to the time limit, so if we loop 4 times, it has 40 seconds to execute (or so I've been told).

Plus if your using IIS, then set_time_limit MUST be lower than whats set in IIS

axxessdeny

hmmm ... ok thanks I will try that ... I guess my thinking was that if I had an infinite time limit in my loop then there would be no way it would time out! haha Ok so if I have set_time_limit(xx) greater than what is set in IIS it will still time out, per IIS. But what will PHP think of that? Thanks for your reply!