[Tutor] Request Timeout

[Titu Kim]

Thank you very much dman and Lloyd. I will look into
it.
--- Lloyd Kvam <pythontutor@venix.com> wrote:
> I have been to sites that do sometimes take a long
> time to return results.
> 
> http://www.traceroute.org/#USA
> traceroute.org
> http://www.net.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/netops.cgi
> Network Group Services
> 
> I believe there is a way for the web server to
> return a "keep-alive" so the browser
> does not time out.  Unfortunately, I do not know
> where to send you to
> get documentation on this.  I presume it is part of
> HTTP 1.1.
> 
> [repeated because the first try used the wrong
> reply-to address.]
> 
> dman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:05:24PM -0800, Titu Kim
> wrote:
> > | I am writing a cgi script in python which  posts
> a
> > | query to Oracle db. WHen the query takes long
> time, my
> > | browser get timeout message. How can i fix this
> > | problem to avoid timeout? I am not sure which
> side
> > | issue timeout(either browser, apache, or python
> cgi
> > | script). How can i fix this problem to make
> browser
> > | waits as long as it takes for oracle to return
> result?
> > | Thanks.
> > 
> > It's the browser that times out -- it figures the
> web server ain't
> > there if it's not saying anything.  The best
> solution is to use some
> > sort of persistant handler with a pool of db
> connections.  When a
> > request arrives it is given to a running process
> (persistant cgi, zope
> > object, whatever middleware you choose) that
> already has a connection
> > to Oracle.  Thus the time to create a connection
> is eliminated.
> > 
> > (a not-really-a-solution solution is to increase
> the timeout values in
> > your browser, but then every visitor of your site
> has to do that too)
> > 
> > HTH,
> > -D
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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