>A system that would ingest stories from 1+ rss feeds? I think so. And in my view, there are at least two techniques to handle exception gracefully using CFTHREAD tag. a) the "timeout" attribute, this is an easier way to implement; b) using a predetermined timeout, to kill a thread if it does not complete within a specified time, check out livedocs for detail.
And since we're at it, I wish the CFFEED tag has a "cache" attribute like CFQUERY, hence, it can improve performance greatly (saving round trips to feed source), scenario, daily news. Yes, the "xmlVar", or "varXML" would function kind of similarly, but you would to go through the whole damn process, creating such such a file, checking date/time stamp... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297530 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
