Tested with Firefox and IE .. same behaviour. About server configuration .. maybe. The development environment is CentOS 4.4, almost default install, running in a local vmware server console. Changed "KeepAlive", which is the only configuration parameter which seems kind of related, without success.
Done some google with "+php +download +freeze" and "+apache +download +freeze" without founding anything interesting. Neither changing "freeze" for "block". In a few hours i will post controller, model and view to the bin. Thanks four your interest. On 23 ago, 21:23, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
