On 11/17/05, Achim Stumpf <hakim.st@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi NG, > > I have my own apache server 2.0.54 running with php 4.3.10. > > I got a little logical problem here about http requests. > > I have written a small php script which waits for x seconds. Every > second it appends the seconds to a file. > > I expected a timeout after 300 seconds, becouse apache is configured > like that. But until now it doesn't matter. I can wait for more than 5 > minutes and the script finishes i see the result page. > > Why my browser doesn't get a timeout. Which part is responsible for a > timeout??? I think the Apache timeout doesn't kick in during request processing. Otherwise it would be kinda hard to download a big file. The PHP timeout maybe only applies to CPU time (non-sleeping).