This sounds more like a browser or webserver configuration issue. On Aug 23, 1:18 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for you answer!! > > I've already set "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename > \"", and also an option for the IE problem with multiple dots. > > My first cake so at this stage I'm not using the Security component. > CAKE_SECURITY set to 'high', also tested with 'medium' without > success. I'm not sure of fully understanding your suggestion about > Security and Session handling. > > The session don't die as long as the download time is smaller than the > session lifetime .... it simply freezes. After the download starts the > user can request anything he wants. But the browser will not receive > any data until the donwload is finished. Click for download, download > starts, click on _put_any_number_here_ links from the page and finally > when download finishes the last action requested is processed. > > If you are downloading small files or working from intranet the user > perhaps doesn't notice the behaviour, but downloading a 50MB file from > the internet at 15KB/s you can imagine the result. For testing I > download smaller than 1MB files at 10KB/s so the file size is not > causing the problem. > > Only the current session gets frozen. I've run tests with 3 or more > concurrent sessions (downloading diferent files with diferent file > sizes as 700kb or 170MB) and all of them freeze when the download > starts and get back to life when it finishes. > > I assume that when my controller action calls the model download > method it doesn't give up until the method "return's". And the method > does not "return" until the chunked "fread" ends due to "feof" > condition. So what I need is something like "fire and forget" the > method from the action, so the user can go on with other actions. > > Thanks again, > Juan > > On 23 ago, 17:23, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Set the content-disposition header so the download gets forked out to > > a separate request, and use Ajax on the main application page to keep > > the session alive. Are you using the Security component? What are > > your session security settings? > > > On Aug 23, 10:36 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > In my project the users will usually download files with sizes up to > > > 150MB at limited speeds depending on the remote location (intranet/ > > > internet), so the download process can take hours. I've created a > > > download function in a model which is requested by a function in a > > > controller. > > > > The problem is that once the download begins, the application gets > > > frozen and the user can't do any other action within this session > > > until the download is finished. The desired behaviour would be that, > > > while enough bandwith is available, the user can download several > > > files simultaneously. > > > > I've searched the group and done some google work without success. > > > Perhaps the solution is not so complicated but I don't know how to fix > > > this behaviour. > > > > Any idea on how to solve this problem? Can you point me to a resource > > > related to this issue? > > > > Thanks, > > > Juan > > > > CakePHP/1.1.16 on Apache/2.0.52
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