If I have a PHP page that is doing a task that takes a long time, and I try to load another page from the same site at the same time, that page won\'t load until the first p
Hmm... I did not check but I think that each request to the webserver is handled in a thread of its own. Thereby a different request should not be blocked. Just try :-) Use a different browser and access your page while the big script is running!
Err.. I just see that this worked for you :-) And it should for others, too.