Continue PHP execution after sending HTTP response

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I had this snippet in my “special scripts” toolbox, but it got lost (clouds were not common back then), so I was searching for it and came up with this question, surprised to see that it’s missing, I searched more and came back here to post it:

<?php
 ob_end_clean();
 header("Connection: close");
 ignore_user_abort(); // optional
 ob_start();
 echo ('Text the user will see');
 $size = ob_get_length();
 header("Content-Length: $size");
 ob_end_flush(); // Strange behaviour, will not work
 flush();            // Unless both are called !
 session_write_close(); // Added a line suggested in the comment
 // Do processing here 
 sleep(30);
 echo('Text user will never see');
?>

I actually use it in few places. And it totally makes sense there: a banklink is returning the request of a successful payment and I have to call a lot of services and process a lot of data when that happens. That sometimes takes more than 10 seconds, yet the banklink has fixed timeout period. So I acknowledge the banklink and show him the way out, and do my stuff when he is already gone.

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