On Jan 18, 4:25 pm, mind01 <mindproduction...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a PHP script called zip.php to generate a zip file. This > requires more than 30 seconds so my server give me an server error 500 > time-out. Can i avoid this 500 error with JQuery and AJAX heartbeat?
Probably not. AJAX is just going to give you additional HTTP requests, and won't change what's happening on the server for the initial request. One possibility would be to have your script start a process that will do the zipping and then use AJAX to poll from the client to see if the zipping is complete. Once it's finished, you can download it or do whatever else you need. The process you start would probably have to be a bit more complicated than just zip. You might want to start something that zips to a temporary file and when that's complete renames it to the file name you'll be polling for. Otherwise, PHP might tell you that the file is ready even though its still being built. Good luck, -- Scott
