Asks me to download the file.

[ahmedtheking]

I'm really stumped now! I've got a PHP script that sends pings in the background and it's been working fine, but one day, it just stopped after 6 secs and asked me to download the file! What's up with that? I've had my host increase the max time out and I've even set the time out limit to '0' (so until the script finishes) but still the same problem happens!

Now, this problem never happened on my mac, could it be FF is being a bit strange?

And one strange thing is is that if I pass error_reporting(2047) and I see all the vars passed, the script continues until its done, with no mistakes! It seems that the script will only run if something is echoed? Does that make sense? Does it seem a server or browser issue?

[Vali]

If you were asked to download the php script, then the server buffer was full (I know it happened on one of my servers)

Just make sure to turn on the buffer auto flush, and it won't happen.
(Unless you’re on a shared server and someone else has it on and fills it up :p)

[jatar_k]

I would say server issue

did your host make any changes when this happened?

did you make some changes when this happened?