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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Downs Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:42 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: [nyphp-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 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
