Brilliant! A meta-refresh should work. What if I wanted to run it as a scheduled task? Hmm.
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Kym Kovan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Philip Kaplan wrote: > > I have a script that needs a few hours to run. It's crawling several > large > > web sites/xml feeds. > > > > What's the best way to do this with CF? I've tried adding > > "requestTimeout=1000000" in the URL but CF still seems to shut it down > > eventually. Also my browser window gives up eventually... > > > If you can break up the script into discrete chunks then you can run > them sequentially from a master script that includes each chunk in turn > each time it is called. > > How do you intend to run the script, from a browser or from a scheduled > task? The master script will vary depending on which but from a browser > it just has to do a self-refresh after a few seconds as the meta-refresh > won't happen until the previous script is finished and the page fully > loads then. The script then starts into the next section. > > > -- > > Yours, > > Kym Kovan > mbcomms.net.au > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:322356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
