Mary Jo, As a "work around", you might want to consider copying the file to a random directory (create one on the fly via UUID or something) then CFLocat the user to that directory.
Then maybe once a day or something, programmatically go through and delete all those directories??? ...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: HostMySite Issue I recently moved my site to HostMySite and am now having major problems as a result. Here's the issue: I use a cfcontent tag to send downloaded software down to the client, as is commonly done so the file can be kept in a secure location. The file is around 10 megs so can take anywhere from 10-15 seconds to a minute or two to download. The problem is that HMS is using SeeFusion and has recently set it to end any threads running more than 50 seconds. This is a major problem because it overrides normal ColdFusion behavior that allows tags like cfcontent and cfftp to run to completion. And it even overrides use of a cfsetting tag for pages you expect to take awhile to run so I have no way to override this. So now my customers go to download the software and for many, it keeps timing out on them, and the customer tries again and again until they run out of download attempts....and then of course I get an annoyed email and have to deal with sending them the file another way. HostMySite's suggestion? Use ASPUpload instead! They say they have no problem with the setting causing problems for some people if it keeps the servers running better for everyone else. So this post is for two reasons...to warn anyone that might be considering using HMS shared hosting that they better not ever need a ColdFusion page to run more than 50 seconds. And to see if anyone knows of a way to get the cfcontent to complete faster. Is there any way to get the thread to run to completion without it having to wait for the client to receive the entire file? Any other options I could look at that will integrate into ColdFusion? I hope that when the improved server monitoring with Scorpio comes out that will allow for better handling of things like this. I totally appreciate the need to kill hanging threads and keep the server up and running. But I totally disagree with being able to override normal use of ColdFusion like this. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
