Re: script not terminating on user abort

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 01:15, Curt Zirzow wrote: > * Thus wrote Dennis Jacobfeuerborn (d.jacobfeuerborn@conversis.de): > > 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 ) { > > $con->sendMessage("x"); # Send msg to Jabber server > > sleep(1); > > } > > > > I made an interesting and somewhat weird observation though: > > If I use the print or echo command in the while-loop once (!) then the > > script will terminate after the loop has run *exactly* three times after > > the abort. > > > > If I put more than one print/echo in the loop (2->inf) then the script > > will terminate after *exactly* 2 (!) iterations of the loop after the > > script has aborted. > > how is it your knowing the number of times it is going through the > loop when the conneciton is aborted? By counting the number of "x" messages I receive on the other end of the Jabber connection. > If you know that the > connection is aborted why isn't it breaking out of the loop? Do you > have some code that can show this? > this code will just continue to send "x" messages after an abort: while( !$done ) { $con->sendMessage("x"); # Send msg to Jabber server sleep(1); } this code will send exactly 3 "x" messages after an abort: while( !$done ) { $con->sendMessage("x"); # Send msg to Jabber server sleep(1); print "foobar"; } this code will send exactly 2 "x" messages after an abort: while( !$done ) { $con->sendMessage("x"); # Send msg to Jabber server sleep(1); print "foobar"; print "foobar"; # any additional number of print/echo commands will do } I hope this helps. regards, Dennis