connection_aborted() does not work on ajax calls

Question

EDITED

I\'ve got an ajax call (using $.ajax()) which calls the following php script.

for ($i=0;$i<40;$i++) {
    echo \" \";
    flu         


        

Answer 1

You will need to add "ignore_user_abort(true);" on top of the PHP script, and to call "ob_flush()" after echoing something from script (For why see PHP flush() man page). Working example (proof of concept):

";
    //flush();
    ob_flush();

    if (connection_aborted()) {
        log_message('error1', connection_status());
        exit;
    }
    else {
        log_message('error2', connection_status());
    }

    sleep(1);
}

P.S. connection_status() returns 0 if connection is still active, and in case of closed one returns 1.

EDIT:

My bad. Call both flush() and ob_flush() (please read flush() man page, link above, and answers from this topic), or otherwise might not work, depending on server/php configuration. The following code was tested on WAMP with PHP 5.3.8 (works without calling flush()), and now on Ubuntu with PHP 5.3.10. where flush() call before ob_flush() is necessary.

Full code for testing:

index.html:

script.php:

ignore_user_abort(true);

function log_message($type, $message, $file = 'log.txt') {
    $fh = fopen($file, 'a') or die("can't open file");

    $conn_status = connection_status();

    if($conn_status === CONNECTION_NORMAL) {
        $status = 'normal';
    } elseif($conn_status  === CONNECTION_ABORTED) {
         $status = 'aborted';
    } else {
        $status = 'timeout';
    }

    $aborted = connection_aborted() ? 'yes' : 'no';

    $data  = $type . ': ' . $message . "\n";
    $data .= 'Connection status: ' . $status . "\n";
    $data .= 'Aborted: ' . $aborted . "\n\n\n";

    fwrite($fh, $data);
    fclose($fh);
}



for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {

    echo "
";
    flush();
    ob_flush();

    if (connection_aborted()) {
        log_message('Error', 'Connection closed by user!');
        exit;
    }
    else {
        log_message('Info', 'Everything is fine. Move along...');
    }

    sleep(1);
}

After you call index.html page, and close tab or whole browser you should see in log.txt file next info:

Info: Everything is fine. Move along...
Connection status: normal
Aborted: no


Info: Everything is fine. Move along...
Connection status: normal
Aborted: no


Info: Everything is fine. Move along...
Connection status: normal
Aborted: no


Error: Connection closed by user!
Connection status: aborted
Aborted: yes