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Re: [Lynx-dev] Connect-timeout
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David Woolley |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Connect-timeout |
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Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:34:56 +0000 |
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address@hidden wrote:
The call to the url starts some processing which takes more than 5 hours.
Most browsers would give up after just a few minutes!
I believe there is an HTTP response (Status 100???) which allows one to
say "please wait". If that's right and Lynx supports it, a better
approach would be to have the application periodically send that response.
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David Woolley
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