added a note to flush() describing the buffering outside of PHP

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Hartmut Holzgraefe 2000-11-09 11:20:54 +00:00
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@ -62,6 +62,25 @@ ob_end_flush();
using (CGI, a web server, etc.) This effectively tries to push
all the output so far to the user's browser.
</simpara>
<note>
<para>
<fuction>flush()</function> has no effect on the buffering
scheme of your webserver or the browser on the client
side.
</para>
<para>
Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer
the output from your script until it terminates before
transmitting the results to the browser.
</para>
<para>
Even the browser may buffer its input before displaying it.
Netscape, for example, buffers text until it receives an
end-of-line or the beginning of a tag, and it won't render
tables until the &lt;/table&gt; tag of the outermost table is
seen.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>
</refentry>