I have a page that I am performing an AJAX request on. The purpose of the page is to return the headers of an e-mail, which I have working fine. The problem is that this is called for each e-mail in a mailbox. Which means it will be called once per mail in the box. The reason this is a problem is because the execution time of the imap_open function is about a second, so each time it is called, this is executed. Is there a way to make an AJAX call which will return the information as it is available and keep executing to prevent multiple calls to a function with a slow execution time?
Cheers,
Gazler.
Batch your results. Between loading all emails vs loading a single email at a time, you could batch the email headers and send it back. Tweak this number till you find a good fit between responsiveness and content.
The PHP script would receive a range request in this case such as
Javascript will maintain state and request data in chunks until all data is loaded. Or you could do some fancy stuff such as create client-side policies on when to request data and what data to request.
The browser is another bottleneck as most browsers only allow 2 outgoing connections at any given time.