Browser Timeout

Anon

Got a rather large program, 2500+ lines, that does rather slow functions (such as connecting to gimp, etc).. Problem is that when I run this script, my browser tends to timeout quite often and no results are shown.. I'm using ignore_user_abort(true) to make sure the script finishes, and also a bunch of flush() to try send output whenever possible to the browser.. Still my MSIE6 browser times out, and half of the result page is shown..

My question:
Any PHP, Apache or maybe MSIE registry settings that can be changed to avoid this? Any tips?

Regards,
Morten Johansen

jburfield

PHP:
set_time_limit(0);

This turns off the timeout features...

However, as someone else noted, this could be good and bad. If something is not working correctly, it will never time-out for you.

Use it carefully and wisely!

-- Jason

Anon

if you reread my question, the problem isnt the script timeing out.. the browser times out due to too long processing time. Timeouts within the script are fine, its the browser that is the problem.

Anon

Use javascript and open a new mini window....and write to to as you go along.

try to open a new window (using javascript) called secondwin

Then you'll have to write PHP code that writes

< script >secondwin.write("...")</ script >

Like, every time your program loops.. I assume it loops somewhere!

I can give you a better example tomorrow..time to go home!

Morten wrote:

if you reread my question, the problem isnt the script timeing out.. the browser times out due to too long processing time. Timeouts within the script are fine, its the browser that is the problem.

Anon

I am having the same problem. Did you find an alternative solution to using js? I am trying to avoid js on my site. Thanks

Bill

Anon

We have also a same problem as this. Our server program is doing some heavy process. The program populates the next page with the output from the program. As this takes quite a little bit of time, I feel that browser is getting timed-out and only half of the next page is coming up.
Is there any solution for this.
We are using Apache- Tomcat 3.2.3. Can we change some server settings to do so? Or is there any other options.

Rak.

Anon

You can set_time_limit for any script

Check out the php function:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php