You are responding to a request, your HTTP server must return something. The HTTP ’empty response’ response is 204 No Content: return (”, 204) Note that returning a file to the browser is not an empty response, just different from a HTML response.
Yes. You can do this: ignore_user_abort(true);//not required set_time_limit(0); ob_start(); // do initial processing here echo $response; // send the response header(‘Connection: close’); header(‘Content-Length: ‘.ob_get_length()); ob_end_flush(); @ob_flush(); flush(); fastcgi_finish_request();//required for PHP-FPM (PHP > 5.3.3) // now the request is sent to the browser, but the script is still running // so, you can continue… die(); //a … Read more
As you are using Spring Boot web, Jackson dependency is implicit and we do not have to define explicitly. You can check for Jackson dependency in your pom.xml in the dependency hierarchy tab if using eclipse. And as you have annotated with @RestController there is no need to do explicit json conversion. Just return a … Read more
Guzzle implements PSR-7. That means that it will by default store the body of a message in a Stream that uses PHP temp streams. To retrieve all the data, you can use casting operator: $contents = (string) $response->getBody(); You can also do it with $contents = $response->getBody()->getContents(); The difference between the two approaches is that … Read more