After testing it, the answer is NOPE... It sits there and waits...
I have one page that makes the call to another page, the timeout is set to 0
The other page contains a delay of 8 seconds and then writes a file
More ideas needed...
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-----Original Message-----
From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:52 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish
Heh. You'd have to test it. :)
> Well, that's what I was thinking, but I could do with some
> confirmation on
> that one ;-))
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 3:11 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to
> finish
> gotcha... in this case I'd recommend a similar solution.
> Use cfhttp to
> execute the other page and then use cflocation to redirect
> to
> someplace else. I _think_ you can execute cfhttp with a
> timeout of 0
> and have the page continue processing immediately without
> waiting for
> the cfhttp content. I'm not certain of this tho -- I don't
> do a lot of
> work with cfhttp, so I'd have to go back to the docs and
> test it. For
> my own work, I have yet to run into any real issues with
> the way the
> framework handles it -- doesn't mean there aren't any,
> just that I
> haven't experienced them. Of course the framework also
> encapsulates
> the processes executing in the onrequestend to insulate
> them some from
> the remaining page.
>> That sounds like it would do the trick - but like you
>> said
>> there are some
>> concerns, it might be a last resort.
>> But preferably I'd like it so that once the other process
>> is called it has
>> nothing to do with the originating page, I know its
>> asking
>> a lot;-))
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 2:33 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to
>> finish
>> The onTap framework has a built-in method of doing this
>> which is
>> easily portable to other applications. Basically you
>> generated content
>> then use cfflush to push that content to the user, and
>> perform the
>> NSLookup (however it's performed) after the flush, so it
>> processes
>> after the user has already received their content. The
>> onTap framework
>> does this by providing a default flush and a queue of
>> processes to be
>> executed in the OnRequestEnd.cfm template. If you have
>> concerns about
>> users refreshing the page and causing unnecessary
>> overhead
>> on the
>> system, you might want to include a page redirection
>> (meta
>> tag or
>> _javascript_ - you can't use cflocation after a cfflush
>> tag)
>> in the
>> content going to the browser. I use the _javascript_
>> location.replace()
>> method which is analogous to cflocation in that it
>> replaces the
>> current entry in the browser's history, allowing the user
>> to use their
>> back button normally. The onTap framework has this
>> function
>> encapsulated into a couple of ColdFusion functions which
>> provide some
>> additional features.
>> hth
>> s. isaac dealey 214-823-9345
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>>> What's the best way to start/call a process in CF and
>>> not
>>> wait for it to
>>> finish?
>>> I'm thinking cfhttp but not sure...
>>> For example:
>>> A page is called, this page does a NSLOOKUP etc. which
>>> takes a bit of time,
>>> but I don;t want to user to have to wait for the process
>>> to finish, i.e.
>>> prevent unnecessary delay of the page loading time.
>>> Taco Fleur
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