I would like to be able to detect when my scripts timeout and send an appropriate message to the browser. However it seems that even though there is a way to detect a script execution timeout in PHP there is no way to send something to the browser once a script has timed out.

The function register_shutdown_function() seems to be exactly what I need. In conjunction with connection_status() I can find when a timeout has occured and act on it.

However register_shutdown_function() will not allow one to send output to the browser since it is called *after* all output has been sent.

Could someone implement a version of register_shutdown_function() that would allow for output to be sent to the browser?

PS

I have already asked around and been told it cannot be done *but* If there is already a way to do what I trying to achieve, please let me know and sorry but the bogus request.