Re: [Lynx-dev] Connect-timeout

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Nov 29, 2008, at 02:34, David Woolley wrote:

> Dries.DeMoor 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.
Dries may not have control over the server which would allow
him to do this.  But if the CGI is named "nph-"whatever.CGI,
he may be able to assert some control over the responses
returned by the server, and even their timing.

Do browsers manifest the "please wait" response to the human
viewer?  I have a similar problem; I don't know about timeout,
but while a process that may take a couple minutes runs I
issue in the HTML a blip line every few seconds to show that
the process hasn't died.  Is there a better way?

> --
> David Woolley
> Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
> RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
> that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
Which is why I trimmed an address in the header.

-- gil