Hi,
Check the main thread, i have found the problem if you're interested...
Adrian Zaharia
Trevor Gryffyn wrote:
Yeah, this isn't a PHP specific problem, BUT, in the off chance that PHP
could solve the problem (using a different method of sending to the
browser, etc) then it becomes PHP relevant... So everyone give the guy a
break on the relevance issue. If there were two ways of doing
something and you only know one, wouldn't you want to ask if there was a
second, better way, that didn't cause the problem you were having?
Anyway.. Yeah, this might not be avoidable, although when you click on
a link to download a file you can usually still continue browsing, so
I'm guessing that there IS another way to do this.
Couple of thoughts:
1. Have you tried smaller files just as a test (something that takes
like 30 to 60 seconds to download maybe) just to see if you still have
the problem?
2. Is it feasible to create the file and provide a click here to
download or right-click and select SAVE AS.. to download? This might
force the browser to handle it more like a standard download and not
handle it as if it were loading a web page.
3. Speaking of loading as a web page, are you getting a download
progress bar or does the browser just keep spinning with it's normal
I'm loading a web page progress bar? If that was happening, it could
be an issue of setting a good MIME type (what was it, like
octet/stream or something that's a generic this is a binary file
mime type?). If your browser thinks its downloading HTML, that could
lock it up.
4. Lastly... I've noticed when my browser is locked up for whatever
reason, that you can usually open another instance of the browser.
Going to your desktop and double-clicking on the Internet Explorer icon
again, etc. This second copy of IE seems to operate in a different
memory space... As a different program. So if you crash or lock up the
other instance, as long as you're not grinding your CPU or maxing out
your memory, the second instance of IE or whatever should still work ok.
I've had IE crash, with a End Program type propt and have other
instances of IE be fine. But all the IE windows opened from the
original window get nuked by the End Program function.
Hope this helps at least a little. I'm guessing there's a way to make
it download without freezing your IE and I'm guessing it may have
something to do with your headers and/or MIME type. If that doesn't
work, I'd investigate creating the file and letting the user click a
link to download it, forcing the browser to handle it how it sees fit.
Good luck!
-TG
-Original Message-
From: adrian zaharia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: Browsing while downloading?
Hi,
Thanks for reply, yet:
1. i know has nothing to do with php but since now i am doing
it in php i
thought would be a good solution to post here
2. bad browser? hmm... i tried: IE, MozillaFirefox (Win+Linux),
Opera(Win+Linux), Konqueror maybe there is still one
better out there
:P
Thanks,
Adrian
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