Compress a manually closed connection AND continue processing

I can compress or close the connection early though how do I do both?

[JAB Creations]

- I've managed to close a PHP connection early and continue processing.
- I've managed to send a compressed response to a client.
- I have not managed to do both at the same time.

How do send a compressed response and continue processing?

Currently my somewhat minimal test case compresses the server response though it doesn't close the connection:

<?php
ob_start();
echo '<style type="text/css">* {background-color: #000; color: #fff;}</style>';
echo '<p>Testing response: '.time().'.</p>';
$c = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
echo $c;
$size = ob_get_length();
ob_end_flush();


// Set the content length of the response.
header("Content-Length: {$size}");

// Close the connection.
header('Connection: close');

// Flush all output.
ob_end_flush();

// Close current session (if it exists).
if (session_id()) {session_write_close();}

sleep(2);
file_put_contents('test.txt', 'testing: '.time().'; size: '.$size);
?>

[JAB Creations]

Got it...

John

<?php
ob_start();
ob_start('ob_gzhandler');

// Send your response.
echo '<style>* {background-color: #000; color: #fff;}</style>';
echo '<p>Testing response: '.time().'.</p>';

// The ob_gzhandler one
ob_end_flush();

header('Content-Length: '.ob_get_length());

// The main one
ob_end_flush();
ob_flush();
flush();

// Close current session (if it exists).
if (session_id()) {session_write_close();}

sleep(4);
file_put_contents('test.txt', 'testing: '.time().'; size: '.$size);
?>

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Just to add that, if you use PHP-FPM , you can use :

fastcgi_finish_request
[php.net...]

This will send all the buffers, and close the connection to the client. Then, the remain of the PHP script will be executed without impact on the client. (no wait)

[w3dk]

// The main one
ob_end_flush();
ob_flush();
flush();

Do I take it that the final flush() was the missing piece to the puzzle?

The ob_flush() would seem to be superfluous? You're starting ob twice, but closing 3 times?

[JAB Creations]

Jorge, I don't use PHP-FPM though I'm sure someone at some point will come across that and be happy for it.

W3dk, I commented out each one and they're all apparently necessary. I come across really dumb stuff like a numeric variable set to 9 and it's NOT greater than 0. Literally almost every single time I post a bug report I encounter, "I don't want to fix this and everyone thinks like me even though every time I drive everyone else is the idiot so no way anyone will think this is even a bug." response. I also deal with a lot of poor documentation. A lot of developers will talk about how you can do X or Y with A or B though not why it is necessary or important. While I'm not one of those developers I can not be the entirety of society to myself. So until other people start giving a damn what works is what works. I am however open to non-solicited improvements.

John