[Zope] timeout on external methods?

[Granzow, Doug (NCI)]

I don't think that it is browser-related.  If it was, I wouldn't expect IE,
Netscape, and Opera to all have the same default setting.

Also, I ran snoop to watch what happens.  After five minutes of no http
packets whatsoever, the first packet comes from the server, not from the
browser.  This tells me that the server is giving up, not the browser.

It could be Apache, now that I think about it.  Let me see if accessing this
page directly through Zope, rather than proxied through Apache, makes a
difference.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Jung [mailto:lists@andreas-jung.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 9:15 AM
> To: Granzow, Doug (NCI); 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: RE: [Zope] timeout on external methods?
> 
> 
> 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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