Large File Not Being Sent To Client

[John C. Frickson]

My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

Current test version looks like this:

ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

Any ideas?
John

[John C. Frickson]

On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:

My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

Current test version looks like this:

ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

Any ideas?
John

I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

[Jerry Stuckle]

John C. Frickson wrote:

On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:

>My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

Current test version looks like this:

ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

Any ideas?
John

I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to let
the browser know how much to expect.

Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how long
the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited length). And
evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.
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Jerry Stuckle
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=============== ===

[John C. Frickson]

On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

John C. Frickson wrote:

>On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:

>>My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

Current test version looks like this:

ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

Any ideas?
John

I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to let
the browser know how much to expect.

Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how long
the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited length). And
evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.

Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

[Jerry Stuckle]

John C. Frickson wrote:

>

On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>John C. Frickson wrote:

>>On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

Current test version looks like this:

ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

Any ideas?
John

I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to
let the browser know how much to expect.

Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how long
the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited length).
And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.

Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual, but
possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your data
to the browser, it probably can't send an error message, either. But it
will log something.
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Remove the "x" from my email address
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JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attgl obal.net
=============== ===

[John C. Frickson]

On 2007-03-11 07:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

John C. Frickson wrote:

>>

On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>>John C. Frickson wrote:
On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().
>
This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.
>
I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush( ) and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.
>
Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.
>
PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit
>
Current test version looks like this:
>
ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
>
>
The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:
>
Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo
>
So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.
>
Any ideas?
John

I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to
let the browser know how much to expect.

Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how long
the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited length).
And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.

Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual, but
possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your data
to the browser, it probably can't send an error message, either. But it
will log something.

Nothing in the Apache error log (where PHP errors usually go).
The Apache access log shows a "200" response code and a short
number of bytes (such as 10343101 when it should be 11500016).

I'm cross-posting this to a couple other groups that might be
relevant.

[Jerry Stuckle]

John C. Frickson wrote:

>

On 2007-03-11 07:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>John C. Frickson wrote:

>>>

On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
John C. Frickson wrote:
On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
>My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
>php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
>the pdf to the client using readfile().
>>
>This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
>is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
>either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
>amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.
>>
>I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
>ob_flush () and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
>file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
>is hung.
>>
>Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
>HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.
>>
>PHP version is 5.1.2
>Apache is 2.2.3
>OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit
>>
>Current test version looks like this:
>>
> ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
> ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
> ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
> ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
> $lth = 0;
> $in = fopen($path, "r");
> while (!feof($in)) {
> $data = fread($in, 8192);
> $lth += strlen($data);
> $errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
> echo $data;
> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
> ob_flush();
> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
> flush();
> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
> }
> $errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
> fclose($in);
> $errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
>>
>>
>The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:
>>
> Read 10223616 bytes
> After echo
> After ob_flush
> After flush
> Read 10231808 bytes
> After echo
>>
>So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
>log entry to last is about 1 second.
>>
>Any ideas?
>John
>
I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to
let the browser know how much to expect.

Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how
long the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited
length). And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.
Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual, but
possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your
data to the browser, it probably can't send an error message, either.
But it will log something.

Nothing in the Apache error log (where PHP errors usually go).
The Apache access log shows a "200" response code and a short
number of bytes (such as 10343101 when it should be 11500016).

I'm cross-posting this to a couple other groups that might be
relevant.

In that case data WAS sent to the browser. But since it was incomplete
it looks like the browser just didn't display anything.

That's not unusual.

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js*******@attgl obal.net
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[shimmyshack]

On 11 Mar, 18:11, "John C. Frickson" <frickson_AT_gi bbon.comwrote:

On 2007-03-11 07:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

John C. Frickson wrote:

On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
John C. Frickson wrote:
On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
the pdf to the client using readfile().

>>>This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.

>>>I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
ob_flush() and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
is hung.

>>>Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.

>>>PHP version is 5.1.2
Apache is 2.2.3
OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit

>>>Current test version looks like this:

>>> ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
$lth = 0;
$in = fopen($path, "r");
while (!feof($in)) {
$data = fread($in, 8192);
$lth += strlen($data);
$errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
echo $data;
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
ob_flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
flush();
$errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
}
$errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
fclose($in);
$errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );

>>>The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:

>>> Read 10223616 bytes
After echo
After ob_flush
After flush
Read 10231808 bytes
After echo

>>>So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
log entry to last is about 1 second.

>>>Any ideas?
John

>>I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
worked anyway, shouldn't it?

>Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to
let the browser know how much to expect.

>Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how long
the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited length).
And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.

Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual, but
possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your data
to the browser, it probably can't send an error message, either. But it
will log something.

Nothing in the Apache error log (where PHP errors usually go).
The Apache access log shows a "200" response code and a short
number of bytes (such as 10343101 when it should be 11500016).

I'm cross-posting this to a couple other groups that might be
relevant.

resume.
If in doubt put a static PDF served only by apache (not through
script), and then GET that, stop it half way through and then refresh,
watch the headers for status 206 and info about number of bytes offset/
number of bytes content length.

[John C. Frickson]

On 2007-03-11 13:34, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

John C. Frickson wrote:

>>

On 2007-03-11 07:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>>John C. Frickson wrote:
On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
John C. Frickson wrote:
>On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
>>My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I have a
>>php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
>>the pdf to the client using readfile().
>>>
>>This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
>>is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
>>either. I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
>>amounts of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.
>>>
>>I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
>>ob_flush( ) and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a log
>>file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php script
>>is hung.
>>>
>>Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established, the
>>HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.
>>>
>>PHP version is 5.1.2
>>Apache is 2.2.3
>>OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit
>>>
>>Current test version looks like this:
>>>
>> ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
>> ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
>> ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
>> ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
>> $lth = 0;
>> $in = fopen($path, "r");
>> while (!feof($in)) {
>> $data = fread($in, 8192);
>> $lth += strlen($data);
>> $errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
>> echo $data;
>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
>> ob_flush();
>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
>> flush();
>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
>> }
>> $errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
>> fclose($in);
>> $errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes", "debug.txt" );
>>>
>>>
>>The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:
>>>
>> Read 10223616 bytes
>> After echo
>> After ob_flush
>> After flush
>> Read 10231808 bytes
>> After echo
>>>
>>So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
>>log entry to last is about 1 second.
>>>
>>Any ideas?
>>John
>>
>I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
>and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
>worked anyway, shouldn't it?
>
Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header - to
let the browser know how much to expect.
>
Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how
long the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited
length). And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.
>

Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual, but
possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your
data to the browser, it probably can't send an error message, either.
But it will log something.

Nothing in the Apache error log (where PHP errors usually go).
The Apache access log shows a "200" response code and a short
number of bytes (such as 10343101 when it should be 11500016).

I'm cross-posting this to a couple other groups that might be
relevant.

In that case data WAS sent to the browser. But since it was incomplete
it looks like the browser just didn't display anything.

That's not unusual.

In my original message I wrote "Using a network monitor, I see
the connection being established, the HTTP GET being sent, but
no content coming back." The browser did NOT receive ANY data.

[Jerry Stuckle]

John C. Frickson wrote:

>

On 2007-03-11 13:34, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>John C. Frickson wrote:

>>>

On 2007-03-11 07:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
John C. Frickson wrote:
>
>
On 2007-03-09 20:41, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>John C. Frickson wrote:
>>On 2007-03-09 10:28, John C. Frickson wrote:
>>>My company produces reports for our customers in PDF format. I
>>>have a
>>>php script that verifies login status and access rights, and sends
>>>the pdf to the client using readfile().
>>>>
>>>This has worked fine until recently. One of our customers' reports
>>>is 10.6MB, and the customer never receives it and I can't get it
>>>either . I checked the Apache access_log, and it shows varying
>>>amount s of bytes being sent, but always close to 10MB.
>>>>
>>>I tried changing the php script to do fopen(), fread(), echo,
>>>ob_flush () and flush(). After each flush, I write a message to a
>>>log
>>>file. The messages in the log file stop at 10MB, as if the php
>>>script
>>>is hung.
>>>>
>>>Using a network monitor, I see the connection being established,
>>>the
>>>HTTP GET being sent, but no content coming back.
>>>>
>>>PHP version is 5.1.2
>>>Apache is 2.2.3
>>>OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 - 64bit
>>>>
>>>Curren t test version looks like this:
>>>>
>>> ini_set("output _buffering", "0");
>>> ini_set("implic it_flush", "1");
>>> ini_set("memory _limit", "100M");
>>> ini_set("max_ex ecution_time", "600");
>>> $lth = 0;
>>> $in = fopen($path, "r");
>>> while (!feof($in)) {
>>> $data = fread($in, 8192);
>>> $lth += strlen($data);
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("Re ad $lth bytes" , "debug.txt" );
>>> echo $data;
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r echo" , "debug.txt" );
>>> ob_flush();
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r ob_flush" , "debug.txt" );
>>> flush();
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("Afte r flush" , "debug.txt" );
>>> }
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("Go t EOF", "debug.txt" );
>>> fclose($in);
>>> $errLog->WriteLog("En d of Script - read $lth bytes",
>>>"debug.t xt");
>>>>
>>>>
>>>The last five lines of the debug.txt log file say:
>>>>
>>> Read 10223616 bytes
>>> After echo
>>> After ob_flush
>>> After flush
>>> Read 10231808 bytes
>>> After echo
>>>>
>>>So it's never returning from the ob_flush() call. Time from first
>>>log entry to last is about 1 second.
>>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>John
>>>
>>I noticed I didn't have a "Content-Length" header, so I added it
>>and it's now working. Even without the header, it should have
>>worked anyway, shouldn't it?
>>
>Not reliably. There is a reason for the Content-Length header -
>to let the browser know how much to expect.
>>
>Without the header the browser is free to figure on it's own how
>long the data should be (no browser I know of allows "unlimited
>length). And evidently you finally exceeded the browser default.
>>
>
Except NO data ever got sent to the browser. So it's something in
either PHP or Apache that decided to quit. True, I wrote bad code
by forgetting the Content-Length header, but it's a bit disturbing
that PHP or Apache just didn't send any data without any kind of
warning or error message.

What's in your Apache error log?

Or, if you are logging PHP errors to a separate log file (unusual,
but possible - check phpinfo()), what's in it?

And if there is such a severe error that PHP/Apache can't send your
data to the browser, it probably can't send an error message,
either. But it will log something.
Nothing in the Apache error log (where PHP errors usually go).
The Apache access log shows a "200" response code and a short
number of bytes (such as 10343101 when it should be 11500016).

I'm cross-posting this to a couple other groups that might be
relevant.

In that case data WAS sent to the browser. But since it was
incomplete it looks like the browser just didn't display anything.

That's not unusual.

In my original message I wrote "Using a network monitor, I see
the connection being established, the HTTP GET being sent, but
no content coming back." The browser did NOT receive ANY data.

And your Apache log says around 10M was sent. What happened to it?

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