On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Timwi wrote:
This wouldn't bother me at all, if only there wasn't yet another (probably unrelated) bug that causes pages to finish loading later than necessary. Often, the connection just hangs even though all the page contents have actually been transfered (and Opera displays it all sans scrollbar), but it just waits and waits for ages before it finishes up the page transfer.
That's not a bug; there are a few operations (updating links and the site stats table w/ the number of page views, etc) which are postponed until after the page is rendered and sent down the pipe, precisely so that if the database is stuck you'll still see the page as soon as possible. The connection is still open because the script hasn't finished; as far as I know there's no way in PHP to close the connection without killing the script.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)