note 99286 deleted from function.session-start by peehaa

Note Submitter: user at annon dot org ---- I recently stumbled upon a problem in my download script where a download link would be clicked but then no other links would work until that download had finished. Other instances/windows would not work either. This is because session_start() locks the session data until the script finishes. In my case, until the script had finished sending the file data (which in a throttling script can take a while). The solution is to use session_write_close(); This writes the current session data back to the session and closes the session so that other instances/windows can access the script using the same session. Since adding it to my script my site can now have several files downloading at once from the same session and still serve pages.