Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/08/08 16:24

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:14:44 +0100, John Ellingsworth
<jellings@vet.upenn.edu> wrote:

> When attempting to download large files (~30MB+), users have reported
> that the download seems to stop and that the website becomes
> unresponsive.
>
> We have been able to confirm this but have so far been unable to find
> the root cause, and are wondering if anyone else has the same problem.
>
> I have searched and found some earlier bug reports related to readfile()
> but these were reported as resolved and fixed.
>
> In php.ini, we have modified the following variables to compensate for
> the possible extra time, but the problem still persists.
>
> max_execution_time 0
> memory_limit -1
>
> System info:
> PHP Version 5.2.1
> ISAPI
> Windows 2003 Server

Does this only occur on PHP's readfile(), or with just large files in
general? And do you sent a Content-Length header beforehand?
--
Rik Wasmus

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