Re: Re: Browser displays blank page, while request still being handled

On May 10, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Rolf Wouters wrote:

Yet another update. Strange thing happened. I fixed the problem... It's not a clean solution, it's not the right solution, but for now, it'll (have to) do :-) I changed my little test-script to include directives like max_input_time, set_time_limit(0) etc. Than I thought, why not try to generate some output when copying files!??! So I did... and you know what, all of a sudden I'm seeing my response page every single time I call my script :-D So our quick-n-dirty-but-we-know-its-wrong-solution is gonna be to have the script generate some output (a single space) for each file it has copied (i.e. print(" ")). After testing it with the problem-app, we feel confident this is a viable, temporary, solution. At least untill we complete our PHP5 rewrite of the Photofresher :-) I would like to thank all of you for your time, patience and advice. If anyone has any ideas on why this is working, feel free to let me know :-)

Wild guess is the browser is receiving *something* before it times out? I've only been following this off and on so slap me if I say something stupid, but as I understand it the script you're having problems with creates a 'gallery/page/something' for photogs by copying a lot of files around? Why are you just outputting a space then? Why not output something useful to the person sitting and staring at their screen, like "Image so-and-so processed...<br />\n" so they have a clue as to what's going on behind the scenes and an idea of how long it's going to take to finish? Just a thought. Ed