[Zope] Re: Threading, dtml and performance?!

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Paul Zwarts]

> AFAIK, such a beast does not exist where you can stop a transaction from
> pressing a browsers stop button. Web is stateless, so a stop button on a
> browser cannot be connected to the servers understanding of finish the
> request or don't.
>

Yes and no.  When you stop the browser, the socket connection closes.  The
next time the server tries to use that socket it gets an exception.  Ideally
in handling the exception the server should stop the thread in question, but
who is to say that really happens?

Cheers,

Tom P