What happens when the server is in an infinite loop and the client stops?

Question

I am trying to figure out how the \"talking\" between the server and the client is done.

So, when the server is generating an infinite loop, echoing

Answer 1

Even if your php script has an infinite loop, php.ini has a max_execution_time which will kill the process if the time exceeds.

I am not sure how it will work when the client closes a connection. Apache might kill the process but I don't think PHP will be notified of the client's connection closing.