Recently i wrote an importing script in php, which will import some bulk data from remote server.
from browser i initiate the import operation and everything works good. but some time the remote server took some time to respond so i stopped the request using browser's "stop" button .
but it seems my apache is still processing the request.
So is there a way to stop the apache process when the corresponding request is stopped.?
I don't think this is possible. When you press stop in the browser you just stop listening for/processing responses from the server. If the server is busy processing before it sends the response, you pressing stop doesn't send the server any more information, so it will continue to process until it finishes, then attempt to reply.
Remember that HTTP is stateless. You make a request, you wait for a response, that's all there is to it. In the behaviour you want, you'd need to make another request to the same process while the response is being processed/served, which doesn't follow the pattern.
The only way I think you could achieve this is by implementing another method that would take some parameters that could be used to locate and kill the long-running process. This would, of course, be a new, separate request.
Try using ignore_user_abort() function in php.
Try this code
<?php
ignore_user_abort(false);
set_time_limit(0);
echo 'Testing connection handling in PHP';
while(1) {
if(connection_status() != CONNECTION_NORMAL) {
break;
}
sleep(10);
}
?>
Fore more reference check this http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php
ignore_user_abort() doesn't seem to work on PHP 5, has no effect, none of the values