Re: Debugging web server problems (serving PPP users)

From: David Jones (JONESD_at_ecr6.ohio-state.edu)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: 25 May 2005 04:45:55 GMT

In message <4293D751.51A82181@comcast.net>,
  David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net> writes:
>JF Mezei wrote:
>>
>> Just for posterity...
>>
>> The problem I had was with the OSU web server configuration. I had
>> defined, in the configuration file, a time limit of 2 minutes to respond
>> to HTTP requests. (timelimit response).
>>
>> Should web servers have a time limit to respond to requests ? If so, how
>> long should it be ?
>
>Apparently, the server cannot detect that the response not only came,
>but is still in process and that the response timer is now irrelevant.

The timeout is on the basis of whether the response has completed, not whether
it has begun (on the time scale being used, there is not much variation it how
long it takes the server to open a file and start sending the data).
The default configuration for the server is a 2 minute request timeout and a
1 hour response timeout. Within the response time window, scripts have a
separate set of timeouts for the different stages they go through.

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