How do I close a connection early?

Question

I\'m attempting to do an AJAX call (via JQuery) that will initiate a fairly long process. I\'d like the script to simply send a response indicating that the process has star

Answer 1

After trying many different solutions from this thread (after none of them worked for me), I've found solution on official PHP.net page:

function sendResponse($response) {
    ob_end_clean();
    header("Connection: close\r\n");
    header("Content-Encoding: none\r\n");
    ignore_user_abort(true);
    ob_start();

    echo $response; // Actual response that will be sent to the user

    $size = ob_get_length();
    header("Content-Length: $size");
    ob_end_flush();
    flush();
    if (ob_get_contents()) {
        ob_end_clean();
    }
}