The web server threads MUST have a timeout (the shorter the better) else they are vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
On 3 Lug, 06:23, Iceberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Candid and everyone, > > Candid mentioned "rocket should close the connections if request is > taking longer than 10 seconds (default timeout)" in here [1]. Would > somebody clarify, is that true? > > My concern is that, one of my old app need some periodical maintenance > job which could take dozes of seconds to finish. I knew the normal > solution is run another daemon for that, but, for simplicity reasons, > I still chose to use web2py 's builtin cron feature to > visithttp://localhost:8000/myapp/default/maintenanceevery hour. This trick > worked well on my windows XP development laptop. I don't know whether > situation is changed since then. > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/msg/0416ed025f3e33f8 > > Regards, > Iceberg
