Timeout workaround?

2007-09-13 Thread Todd Plessel
Problem: I'm using wget -q -T 0 -O - 'http://some.remote.host/cgi-bin/some_script?...' to access a PERL-CGI script on a remote computer running Apache httpd that is configured with a 300 second timeout. The script sometimes takes more than 300 seconds to begin sending data (because there is

Re: Timeout workaround?

2007-09-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Todd Plessel wrote: Q1. Is there a way that I can run wget that somehow avoids this timeout. For example, by sending an out-of-band ack to stderr every 30 seconds so httpd does not disconnect. By out-of-band, I mean it cannot be included in the

Re: Timeout workaround?

2007-09-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: Todd Plessel wrote: Q2. If not, then could the PERL-CGI script be modified to spawn a thread that writes an ack to stderr to keep the httpd from timing-out? If so, can you point me to some sample code? This would be the