Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 02/23/05 16:45

A "little" late but:

Robin Getz wrote:
>
> If this runs for awhile things go very bad. This seems to be related to
> a specific download manager called NetAnts that seems to be popular in
> China.
> http://www.netants.com/
>
> Which attempts to open the same url for downloading 10-15 times at the
> same instant.
>

Download managers use Content-Range header [1] to request parts of the
downloaded file in multiple instances. The client above is likely broken
and does not recognize that your script does not support content-range
requests, and keeps requesting and disconnecting instead of giving up.

>
> Someone suggested apache_child_terminate - but this function doesn't
> seem to be available to me.

If the function is not available you can still use connection_aborted().


[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.16

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