Re: problems with session timeout

On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:05, Pedro Henrique Calais wrote: > I'm with the following problem: > my PHP scripts takes a very long time to execute (about 3 hours) because > it has has system call to a perl script that is very time consuming. > > in IE (haven't noticed this in Mozilla or Konqueror) the execution of > the PHP script doesn't finish, due to session expiry I think. I believe IE has a hard-coded timeout limit, nothing you can do about it. You could try to circumvent it by having your script output something (anything) at a regular interval. But that may not be possible if your php script itself is locked up waiting for the perl script. > I've searched on the net and I've found some PHP > functions, like set_time_limit, but all of them > DON'T consider external time, like I/O time > or a system call time. So increasing this > time wouldn't help me. Checkout ignore_user_abort(). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts