Posted by Dahak on 10/20/07 21:09

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:49:46 +0200, an orbiting mind-control laser
made Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> write:

>> I want to get the script to continue rendering a 'Thank you for
>>downloading...'-type page, but nothing seems to happen after the
>>readfile() or fpassthru().
>
>That would be an entirely different thing. The browser requests one
>resource and gets one, a ZIP file in this case. For another resource
>like an HTML page for example the browser would have to send another
>request, because you can't send two resources back at the same. One
>request, one response, one resource.
>
>> In practical terms, this is nothing more than an annoyance. The
>>end user gets the requested ZIP file, but nothing else can be done in
>>the script.
>
>It can't be done in the script because it can't be done in HTTP.
>
>> Other examples I've searched for online seem to imply that script
>>execution should continue.
>
>Of course the script execution can continue, but you can't send a second
>document back to the browser after the first requested file was sent.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Not being able to send anything else after the file was the bit I
was missing.


-Joe

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