Hi Sluggers,
I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I have a PHP web-site running on Apache and Linux. A PHP routine produces a page that is sent back to the browser, but then it has some house-keeping to do which takes some time, perhaps many seconds but the housekeeping doesn't result in any more output to the browser (any output from that point on goes to a log).
What I would like to do is end/close the http request so that the browser gets the HTTP equivelent of an "EOF" but allow the php script to keep running. Now flush() does send the output to date to the browser but the browsers "busy" icon keeps running because the http session isn't closed until the php ends.
I thought of doing a "fork" but the PHP docs say that fork doesn't work when php is running under apache. I could write a shell script and invoke that with a system/exec call from php and have the shell run into the background and do the house-keeping thus allowing the php to finsih, but I'm wondering if sluggers know of "a better way (tm)".
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