script not terminating on user abort

Hi! The connection_* function don't seem to work for me and I can no longer determine when the user has aborted the script. When I close the browser window the script just keeps running. (see bug #23163) The body of the script essentially looks like this: while( !$done ) { $con->sendMessage("x"); # Send msg to Jabber server sleep(1); } I made an interesting and somewhat weird observation though: If I use the print or echo command in the while-loop once (!) then the script will terminate after the loop has run *exactly* three times after the abort. If I put more than one print/echo in the loop (2->inf) then the script will terminate after *exactly* 2 (!) iterations of the loop after the script has aborted. The length of the string used in the print/echo statement doesn't seem to matter. I hope this helps as this bug is currently a showstopper for the stuff I'm developing (a PHP Jabber client). I'm running Red Hat 7.3 with the standard apache-1.3.27-2 package and a self-compiled php-4.3.3rc4 (php-4.3.2 didn't work either). -- ----------------- conversis GmbH Dennis Jacobfeuerborn Geschäftsführer Falkstraße 73-77 47058 Duisburg d.jacobfeuerborn@conversis.de