[Gllug] Re: [Gllug] Apache Timeout

[Xander D Harkness]

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Tom Gilbert wrote:
>
>> > Now that Oracle have moved to apache we are getting all our gear
>> > onto it. Isn't it amazing that they will move to an open source
>> > product only when they pay for it, but I digress. We run some
>> > scripts that can take up to 20 minutes. Where do we set the CGI
>> > timeout value.
>
>> It's this one, but note that if your cgis take THAT long to run, any
>> sane browser will timeout way before this. Apache can't control
>> timeouts set in the browsers.
>
> A quick hack is to have your CGI output its headers first,
> followed by a NUL byte every now and again.
>
> But if your CGIs really take that long, you're better
> reducing your CGIs to a batch job submitter and retriever.
> And doing the work out-of-line.
>
> Matthew.
>
>

Either that or choose something other than a 486sx to run Oracle finacials
on ;-)

X.


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