Hi Joe, On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:37:20AM -0700, Joe Williams wrote: (...) > > Thus we could have : > > > > timeout server 5m > > timeout dead-server 10s > > > > I'm not saying it would be easier (it would not in my opinion), but it would > > provide much cleaner results. What do you think ? > > > > Willy, > > I think that should work, my issue is definitely long polling requests as you > suggested. The only thing in addition to this would be to retry the request > but failing faster might be good enough for now. As I mentioned in my second > email doing ACL based timeouts would also work for me since I know which urls > I expect to take a long time to return.
OK. Concerning the ACL-based timeouts, I have added that to the 1.5 roadmap, because I think that it's not too hard to do if we only support changing the server timeout (others are useless in this case). Cheers, Willy
