Hi Conor, thanks a lot for your response. Your way will work for me, too. I did not see, that the Timeout is one of teh Service flags.
That works for me. --- ps B. unthoughted.wordpress.com T. @peter_shaw F. facebook.com/PeterDunstonShaw G. github.com/petershaw On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Conor McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9 October 2013 15:42, Peter Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > its me again. > Sorry if i bother the list, but this issue is very important for me and i > definitely need your help! I can figure out whats happening, or how i > configure pound the right way. > > I have one call in my Application that is sending data over a time period of > 40-120 seconds. I don't want alywas wait 120 Sec till pound terminates if no > data are coming back from the servers. But i do want configure pound to keep > the connection open when data from the backend is sending too the client. > How long that ever takes: if data is responding: keep it open. > > Is this possible? > > > This type of service is effectively incompatible with a normal HTTP load > balancer. > (Ideally you should consider asynchronous processing, or some other > way to decouple your application logic from the way a HTTP connection > behaves.) > > I have worked around similar issues (long-running CGI) by duplicating > Service and BackEnd(s) stanzas, and adjusting the Timeout in each > Backend: > > > ListenHTTP > ... > # slow service > Service > URL /cgi-bin/slowurl > Backend > Address 1.2.3.4 > Port 80 > Timeout 240 > End > End > > # normal service > Service > Backend > Address 1.2.3.4 > Port 80 > Timeout 15 > End > End > > > Obviously this is not ideal... > > You should also make sure to use a recent pound if you want to use more > than one "URL" directives. "HeadRequire" or "HeadDeny" may work better, > assuming that you have some way of identifying slow request in advance. > You might also want to set the "Client" timeout in your listener. > > C. > > > Thanks a lot for any kind of ideas. > > Peter > --- > ps > > B. unthoughted.wordpress.com > T. @peter_shaw > F. facebook.com/PeterDunstonShaw > G. github.com/petershaw > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Peter Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Why a request from the browser fails, but not from curl on the terminal > > everything works find? - Or ask the other way around: how can i do long > > answer responses? > > > > This is my setup: > > Pound is configured with > > Alive 2 > > ConnTO 30 > > Client 115 > > TimeOut 30 > > > > And a wrote this demo-script: > > > > -------------------------- > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > $| = 1; > > > > print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; > > > > print "." x 1024; > > > > for(1..6){ > > sleep(10); > > print ". \n"; > > } > > > > print "done."; > > -------------------------- > > > > in curl i get the whole result: > > # curl http://vm-box.dev/cgi-bin/hello.pl > > ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. > > . > > . > > . > > . > > . > > done.# > > > > > > But in the browser, pound is terminating the session after exact 30 > > secunds and the log tells me: > > e500 for 192.168.56.1 response error read from 127.0.0.1:8000/GET > > /cgi-bin/hello.pl HTTP/1.1: Connection timed out (30.009 secs) > > > > First, i do not understand why it works with curl. Second - and more > > importend - how can i pass a long result throw pound? > > > > > > Thanx a lot for any thoughts. > > ps > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. > > Please contact [email protected] for questions. > > > -- > To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. > Please contact [email protected] for questions. >
