How to prevent a web client from timing out

[Jeff Bauer]

Alex,

One solution would be to run your number-crunching
in a separate process (e.g. xmlrpc server) that
your cgi script accesses.

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research

aiglauer wrote:
> 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).