[ILUG] Apache and looping routines

[adam beecher]

Haha, Thies stuck it to the man. I was disappointed that he didn't come out with
the clasic M$ line though -  "It's not a bug, it's a feature."

Still though, it just goes to show that they're *way* behind on documentation.

adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> Donncha O Caoimh
> Sent: 31 May 2000 14:10
> To: Wesley Darlington; ILUG
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Apache and looping routines
>
>
> Just got a reply back from the PHP guys:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> please make sure that you have a decent time_limit setting in php.ini
> *PLUS* make sure that you have setted
> ignore_user_abort to Off in php.ini that way the php will stop as sson
> as it can no longer write
> to the client.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> ignore_user_abort is a new option which I've never seen before but it
> does the job and Apache behaves properly :)
>
> Donncha.
>
>
> Wesley Darlington wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 12:52:15PM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> > > While working on a data streaming app I think I stumbled upon something
> > > strange.
> [snip]
> > > in server side scripting?
> > > (or else it's a PHP4 bug..)
> >
> > AFAIK, the server will stop when the server process tries to
> > write to the socket and discovers that it's gone. Y'know the
> > sort of thing ... and there it was, gone! It'll keep merrily
> > running if it's doing something that doesn't involve output.
> >
> > Does your infinite loop write anything? If it is writing
> > something at every stage in the loop, then you may have a
> > different problem... :-)
>
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