Question

I have a shutdown function:

function shutdownFunction(){        
    if (connection_aborted()) {    
        header("Status: 409");
    } elseif (connection_status() == CONNECTION_TIMEOUT) {
        header("Status: 410");
    } else {
        //normal completion actions  
    } 
}

When the connection times out or is aborted, i would like to return a custom header status to the calling application. Although it does execute whatever code is inside the second IF block, it still returns a 500 Internal Server Error, not the custom 409 or 410.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

Internal Server Error is a suspension of processing PHP code, so you can not handle it with “if/else”. Although exception handling with “try/catch” maybe can help.

Add:
in .htaccess you can write this:

ErrorDocument 500 /error-docs/500.shtml

For this action you need “AllowOverride FileInfo” in your apache config file.