mod-php

Does anyone know if it is possible to detect whether the browser has closed the connection during the execution of a long PHP script, when using apache and mod_php ? For example, in Java , the HttpOutputStream will throw an exception if one attempts to write to it after the browser has closed it -- Or will respond negatively to checkError() . Use connection_aborted() In at least PHP4, connection_aborted and connection_status only worked after the script sent any output to the browser (using: flush() | ob_flush()). Also don't expect accurately timed results. It's mostly useful to check if there

Basically, I'm trying to figure out how PHP can be called from a "web server". I've read the documentation, but it didn't help much. As far as I can tell, there are three ways to invoke PHP: via command line (eg: php -f "/path/to/script.php" ) via CGI(??) / via FastCGI (???) via a web server (eg: Apache) module So let's start with CGI . Maybe I'm just blind, but the spec doesn't mention how on Earth the web server passes data (headers & callbacks) to the thing implementing CGI. The situation is even worse with FastCGI . Next up, we have server-specific modules, which, I don't even know what to