Re: Help with timeouts

Also, that whole auto-load is theoretically impossible... You "reload the
page" and you are restarting the script from scratch.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Help with timeouts

> Folks,
>
> Some answers:
>
> > I have a very complex database operation that can sometimes take
> > 70-90
> > seconds to return results. The web page which displays the results,
> > however, seems to always timeout at 60seconds despite setting the
> > Apache
> > timeout to 300 seconds and set_time_limit to 240.
>
> After a helpful web guru called us up from our post, we were able to
> diagnose what's happening here (donation to be announced later):
>
> Regardless of the Timeout and set_time_limit() settings, most browsers
> will time out at 60 seconds.
>
> This is obviously a huge annoyance. Therefore I am offering a *second*
> charity prize to any person who can give me code (PHP or Perl) which
> will display a "Processing" screen with an auto-reload to keep the
> browser interested while waiting 60 to 120 seconds for a database
> response in the background. *Someone* must have done this already, even
> though multi-threading in PHP & Perl is nigh impossible.
>
> -Josh Berkus
>

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