He reported, that this response page is build only half, then stops, to be completed only half a minute later,

Depending on how long the page is I never see the bottom. When I use the products page I have to refresh 2-3 times to see the bottom part. This is thru a proxy only.

I try to reproduce the behaviour in our test environment and fail. I do not have to wait, until the newsletter generation finished. Then, I use the official service URL and see, I observe the same behaviour. The difference: in the test environment, the browser connects directly to ZServer; with the official URL, it connects via a proxy.

Puzzling!

I'm having this same sort of problem w/Zope 2.3a1. I just started trying to use Zope through a proxy. If I work directly on the machine I have no problems.

How to fix the problem:

There should be a (file) control "CloseOnExec", that tells Unix to automatically close the file like object upon an exec. ZServer should probably use it on each of its sockets. I can not see a serious application that should have direct access to ZServer's HTTP request socket. I will soon file a bug report into the Collector. Dieter I'm on the win32 platform and thought that the problem was with my proxy software. Now I'm not so sure. -Jimbo