Re: curl help or other suggestion

> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:05 -0400, Michael Alaimo wrote: > >> I am trying to use register_shutdown_function. Previous to the script >> shutting down I use curl to grab a website. >> >> Basically I want to know if the user has hit the stop button or left the >> page prematurely. >> >> The only problem is that curl runs and finishes its call before the >> shutdown function is called. Because of this I have no way to know if >> the user canceled the request somehow. Any suggestions? >> >> Mike >> >> >> > > > You can't. When a visitor closes their browser, or stops the page from > completing its loading, no message is sent to the server, so your PHP > script won't know about it. > > The only way I know of currently to check for this is use some form of > regular check-in, with Ajax or something, that calls home at regular > intervals to inform your script that it is indeed still connected. If it > fails to call home in time it either means there's lag on the connection > or they broke it. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > I wish that curl would just stop processing. I think you can use connection tracking to know what the user has done. I just cannot use it with my current situation as the code is. Mike