Re: Help with timeouts

I think the assumption is incorrect. Is the browser reporting the timeout,
or is the webserver telling the browser it timed out?

As an example of a difference, IE will display a local page saying the
connection timed out, whereas if the page is actually displayed by the
wbserver, it is the server that finally killed the connection.

Again, as I said before, look at your php.ini file

specifically this parameter:

max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in
seconds

If a script takes longer than that number, it will kill it. This is to
prevent infinite loops. Up this number and you should be ok.

I've had browsers that have sat for well over a minute on a stalled page.

Again, breast cancer research for both donations.

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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