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[Jeff Wilhelm - NYPHP]

The setting is part of the HTTP 1.0 settings set on the client. You can edit
the registry (as a user) and allow more than two simultaneous connections to
a site, but as the site operator you are more limited. The way most sites
(us included) get around this is by having the downloads come from
downloads.sitename.com whereas the content is server from www.sitename.com.
This way the downloads are coming from a different server, and normal
navigation can continue.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Kenneth Downs
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:42 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Asynchronous downloads -- how?

Hi folks,

Let's say you have a link on a page,
www.example.com/friendly-url/file.mp3, which is actually being handled by a
PHP file that checks for subscription status and then sends the file.  It
looks like a straight download to the user.  So far so good.

Now let's say the file is 50MB, so that a download will take several
minutes.

When the user initiates the download, and then attempts to go to another
page on the site, they cannot.  All access to the site is waiting until the
download completes.

I would like the user to be able to continue to navigate while the download
continues in the background.

The best I could come up with on Google suggests that it is the apache
server that is limiting the number of requests it will serve to a given
host.  Zend sells something that supposedly cures this for downloads, but
they wont' give pricing on their site and they did not answer my inquiry.

Anybody know if an apache setting can be made to allow more connections to a
domain from  a host?  At least two I figure, so that the download and page
navigation can both be going on?

--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
www.secdat.com    www.andromeda-project.org
631-689-7200   Fax: 631-689-0527
cell: 631-379-0010

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