How to prevent a web client from timing out

[aiglauer]

Not a purely python question, but.....

I have written a number-crunching app in python. which is being
accessed on our intranet.  All pages generated on-the-fly in python.
Some of the calculations can take a while though (calc time anything
from 5secs to 30 minutes) and I get the client timing out and the
server will then kill the calculation process.

Can I rig it so that the calculation process will still complete and
write its output to a file so that I can use it later?  (Writing to a
file is not a prob - preventing the thing getting slapped is).

Thanks
Alexis


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