[Zope] timeout on external methods?

[Andreas Jung]

That is very likely a webbrowser related timeout but has nothing
to do with Zope.

-aj

--On Monday, June 24, 2002 09:04 -0400 "Granzow, Doug (NCI)" 
<granzowd@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> I only got one reply to this message, from someone who said they weren't
> aware of any such timeout.  Surely someone knows something about this.
>
> Here is some more information:  As I said before, Zope is calling a Perl
> script which takes >5 minutes to process.  Exactly five minutes after I
> submit the request in my browser, the following happens:
>
> IE 6.0:  IE apparently automatically tries to resubmit the request, and a
> second copy of the perl script is launched.  After 10 minutes, IE comes
> back with an error "This page cannot be displayed"
>
> Netscape:  At five minutes, Netscape displays "The document contains no
> data."
>
> Opera 6.0.3:  At five minutes, Opera displays "Connection closed by remote
> server."
>
> Is this 5 minute timeout configurable?  Where does it come from?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Granzow, Doug (NCI)
>> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:45 PM
>> To: 'zope@zope.org'
>> Subject: [Zope] timeout on external methods?
>>
>>
>> I have a page in Zope which calls a Perl script via an
>> External Method.  The
>> perl script takes a long time to complete -- about 8 minutes.
>>  After exactly
>> 5 minutes, I see a second perl process launched by Zope.  At
>> 8 minutes, the
>> first perl process completes, but I do not see the response
>> in my browser.
>> After 10 minutes, I get "This page cannot be displayed" in my
>> browser, but
>> the second perl process is still running.
>>
>> Does Zope have a timeout that is causing it to re-try the
>> perl script after
>> 5 minutes?  Is this adjustable?
>>
>>
>
>
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