Re: Web Browser Timeout on Upload Script

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:01:18 -0800, wrote: >Hi, > >I am running a simple Upload script in PHP using a HTML Form with a File field. The user can >browse their computer and upload a file. It works great, except for large files, where the browser >will timeout. The timeout appears to happen after about 5 minutes. Any ideas on how to get around >this? > I dont think this is just a PHP problem. I 've had it with 2 other scripting languages. AFAIK the client browser timesout rather than the upload application. ie the client's broweser thinks nothings going on and timesout. I did read of a nasty fix, where you have a simple frameset where the app is in the main Frame and there's a tiny "invisible" frame where a piece of javaScript periodically refreshes or write's a character to the frame to fool your browser. I never tried but would like to hear your views zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrTfcbafbeROenzSZbbyranne%|:%s)[R-T]) )Ig|:norm G1VGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips