We run Zope behind Apache/ProxyPass.

Out client wants that a problem page pops up when Zope does not respond or takes too a long time to respond. I thought this should be easy with ProxyPass. However, my colleague was unable to find corresponding documentation.

Does anybody know whether ProxyPass can timeout its connections?

I also wanted to know that some time ago. From my skimming through the source-comments (apache 1.3.9) I think modproxy has no own timeout-handler, it uses a global one. But couldn't you use the ErrorDocument directive to throw up an error for any Proxy-Error? i.e. ErrorDocument 502 /localdocument/my_lame_excuse.html Hmm, just checked, apache 1.3.9 seems not send anything if a timout occurs. At least just opening a port on localhost with netcat and letting apache connect to that didn't throw any error at all )-, it just closed the connection after timeout and IE threw a popup error. Bad. At least I can confirm that indeed the global parameter "timeout" is also responsible for mod_proxy's timout handling. cheers, oliver