CGI script running not completely in HTML

[Steve Holden]

Yong Wang wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>    The propblem I run into is about one minute. The CGI script is not completed to run and aborted.
> If I run the python script in backend solaris machine, the script needs about one minute for database
> access.
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Yong
>  
In which case you probably need to tweak the server timeout setting. 
Nothing you can do from Python (except possibly make your CGI run faster).

regards
  Steve
> 
>>Yong Wang wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, All:
>>>    I have written a python CGI script to run in html web page. When I access to
>>>the html page, it only runs part of the script, then abort because the late part of
>>>the script is involved in database access, it is slow. I wonder whether there is 
>>>a way to control html running speed so that it can wait for CGI script to complete
>>>execution, then write the results to html page ? 
>>>    Thanks a lot .
>>>
>>>      Yong
>>>
>>
>>Most servers impose some sort of CPU limit on CGI processes (though 
>>typically this defaults to a value of 30 seconds or more). If you really 
>>are going past your server's default(?) limit you really need to either 
>>tweak the limit up on the server (at least for that script) or 
>>reconsider whether the application is suitable for CGI in the first place.
>>
>>What kind of "slow" are we talking about here? A minute? Ten minutes?
>>
>>regards
>>  Steve
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