Re: Tar process not dying after user hits "stop"

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> P.S. I included the content-length part just in case anyone knew of a
> better way to calculate the size a tarball is going to be before it is
> actually generated...

if you have enough disk space, you could actually create the tarball into
a directory that apache is serving as static, then when its done,
redirect the user there,
instead of running tar twice.  Or actually create the tarball, take
its size, serve it,
then delete it.

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