simple-test results are in; curl_exec() to localhost : works like a charm, for a 1hr request.
curl_exec() to internet domain name of localhost (port forwarding from adsl modem to localhost enabled) : still running, does appear as frozen as in the original request for help. so ehm, how about that keep-alive.. isn't that supposed to prevent this kinda thing? see, my import routines are pretty useless if i can only use them on localhost and unfortunately i don't think (i'll look into it tommorow) that i can put out regular keep-alive traffic in the text/html output layer, that is then discarded by my curl-exec calling php_daemon_script. i have to start up ffmpeg, and let it run for potentially hours. no http text/html level traffic can be sent while ffmpeg runs, i think. maybe, just maybe some fopen() helper function can check if the process is still open, but i'm just not sure. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html