Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13802 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60186 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Nov 2004 03:02:35 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60158 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2004 03:02:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO took.shire) (68.125.98.48) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2004 03:02:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 92984 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Nov 2004 03:06:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:06:48 +0000 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20041110030648.GH31167@bagend.shire> Mail-Followup-To: internals@lists.php.net References: <418B4909.7010203@ailis.de> <255444644.20041105104900@marcus-boerger.de> <418B4FF6.4020503@ailis.de> <20041108173840.GA25573@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041108173840.GA25573@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Upload Progress Meter Patch From: curt@php.net (Curt Zirzow) * Thus wrote Joe Orton: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Klaus Reimer wrote: > > > > > Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > > > > This is possible? Up to now I thought that the retrieving and processing > > > of POST data is done BEFORE the PHP script is loaded. If I'm wrong here > > > it definetly would be a cool thing to have script callbacks for this. > > > > You are not wrong, POST/GET data is parsed before the PHP scripts are > > run. I also think that functionality like this should not be part of PHP > > itself. It is a user interface problem, so it should be done there. > > It's really the only place it can be done safely: sending an HTTP > response before the request body has been entirely read is fundamentally > risky, too: HTTP clients are not required to read response data > concurrently to sending request bodies, so sending the upload meter > stuff can fill the TCP send buffer server-side and deadlock the > connection for a compliant HTTP client. I've been struggling with this issue, I havn't found any solid standard on HTTP communication. I've tested sending data without reading all of the input with apache and IE/firefox/opera, with success, but it still worries me that nothing is set as a standard. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!