RE: [PHP] spawning a process that uses pipes - doesn't terminatewhen webpage download is canceled

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 21:23 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi robert.,, > > now you've got me curious.. > > you state... > > -Use something else to pass the data back to the user... popen() comes to > -mind or proc_open(). Then disable auto abort on user disconnect via > -ignore_user_abort(). Then after sending periodic data chunks, check the > -user connection status via connection_aborted(). If your script finds > -that the user has aborted, then kill all the processes in the pipeline > -from the PHP script before finally aborting the PHP script itself. > > but if the user is using a browser session... which has a web server > connection... are you siggesting that the server app spawns off a child > process via the popen, and that the child somehow connects to the existing > browser session?? > > walk through the psuedo logic/flow of this if you don't mind.. i must be > missing something.. The PHP session controls the popen() or proc_open() session. The PHP session can detect that the user has aborted and then shutdown the popen() or proc_open() processes. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP