If the stored procedure is what is FTPing the file, and ColdFusion is waiting on the stored procedure to return, then yes.
Unless you are looking to return a status to the user, I would look at doing something like this asynch. I don't know Oracle, but in SQL Server 2005 and up, the Service Broker comes to mind. ~Brad -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: How long to ftp 100mb From: Web Specialist <[email protected]> Date: Thu, April 23, 2009 6:31 pm To: cf-talk <[email protected]> One question: a thread remains busy while FTP continues, right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

