Closing a client connection from PHP

[dannyc]

Hi,

Is there any way from PHP to close the connection to the client (browser) and still continue to execute code.

ignore_user_abort allows execution to continue if the client closes the connection but is there a way to close the connection from the server in PHP?

Daniel

[Installer]

An http connection is request/response, so the connection is closed after the server sends the response. Another connection is established when the client sends another request (e.g. by clicking "submit" or a hyperlink).

[dannyc]

Thanks for the reply. However, in this case what I want to do is send some text as a response, close the connection and then carry on executing some code.

The reason I want to do this has to do with the client, which in this case is not a web browser but a cusom http client for a specific application. I want to close the connection from php so that the php app can continue processing code asynchronously from the http client.

[Sgarissta]

Why not at the end of the user portion of the script, spawn a second process that runs in the background to do the rest of your processing?

[Installer]

...send some text as a response, close the connection and then carry on executing some code.

When you send the response the connection then is closed. Do like Sgarissta suggests.

[dannyc]

Great. That should work. Thanks.