Well you may not need sessions on the other host in the first place, if it's basically just a repository of files for download. But if your application requires it, you can certainly do sessions across subdomains.
There are a number of resources on Google, here's one: http://www.idealog.us/2006/09/php_session_coo.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Downs Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:02 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Asynchronous downloads -- how? Jeff, Can I ask you handle authentication? If the download request goes to another host, isn't the user basically starting with no session? Or are we so lucky that a session on www.sitename.com is valid on downloads.sitename.com? Jeff Wilhelm - NYPHP wrote: > 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 > -- 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
