are you sure it's a "page not found" error? a time out to your webserver shouldn't cause a 404
it may be a DNS timeout. On 31 March 2011 14:06, Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got a client that has a website that lets him add news articles > through a special admin interface (using PHP and MySQL). The form > that accepts these articles is a very basic form with a couple of text > fields for the article title and category, and a large textarea field > that accepts the body of the article. The article body may be quite > large (30,000 characters isn't unusual). The form is submitted using > the POST method. > > The client is complaining that when he fills in the article and > submits the form that his browser appears to do nothing for a few > minutes and then it comes back with a page not found error. > > The server that is hosting the website is in Wellington. Everything > appears to be working ok for me in Auckland. While the client was in > NZ it worked fine, but now he is in Malaysia and the problem has > started. > > I'm thinking that it's possible that his connection is slow and there > is some sort of timeout happening somewhere. I assume that browsers > only wait so long for a response after submitting a form and then give > an error, is this correct? Is this timeout something that can be > altered? Or is it possible that Apache has some sort of timeout and > is closing the connection? > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- Kotahi tamaiti, Kotahi rorohiko iti: Aotearoa http://laptop.org.nz -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
