[vox-tech] when is an html image "sent"?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

yuck.  apparently pcntl_fork() isn't accessible when PHP runs as an apache
module (and i guess it's not available at all for PHP under windows).

i'll just put this on my TODO list and worry about it later.  :(

Thanks, Phil!
Pete



On Fri 16 Dec 05,  7:34 AM, Philip Neustrom <philipn at gmail.com> said:
> nope.  just have it expire after 20 seconds or something.  you're
> keeping a log of the captacha phrases, too, so just delete them
> together.  --Philip Neustrom
> 
> On 12/16/05, Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:

(snip)

> > The problem is that when:
> >
> >    unlink($filename);
> >
> > is used to delete the temporary image file, the image doesn't appear on the
> > webpage.  however, if i don't use "unlink", then the image files tend to
> > collect until i hand delete them.
> >
> >
> > i suppose at some point, the image needs to be sent from server to client.
> > when that happens, it would be ok to delete the image file.  i was *hoping*
> > that this would happen immediately after </html> is sent, but it appears
> > that i'm wrong.
> >
> > is there some kind of technique I can use to make sure the image file gets
> > deleted after it's shipped off to the client?