In reply to spam at flatwan dot net
This might save someone some time. I created a program to list some rather large files and create links for the end user to click on in order to download them (using the php function fpassthru()).
The problem I was having was it would make it half way through the download (about 377 megs) and the script would terminate and the download would stop.
After doing some shotgun troubleshooting I discovered the php config option 'max_execution_time = 30'. Upon changing it to 'max_execution_time = -1' the files >370 megs can be downloaded without the script aborting.
The best way to do this would to be:
<?php
@ignore_user_abort();
@set_time_limit(0);
?>
This only changes these settings for the script that calls them. (Thanks to (I don't remember who) who wrote a form mail script that used these two lines)