RE: [PHP] Timeouts during large uploads, very slow queries etc

> >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 browser 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. > > Has ANYONE got any experience/views on this > > zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/ Maybe this will help? I've been looking for a PHP replacement of something as graceful as ASPUpload and this is the closest I can find. Thanks. Kind Regards, Chris Rose