Sorry I can't do that. Isn't there any other way?
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:48 PM, jbiskofski <jbiskof...@gmail.com> wrote: > You need to fix this in Apache not in your web-app. The setting is called > TimeOut in your httpd.conf - this is the number of seconds Apache will wait > before sending a timeout error and ending the request. > > - Jose from Mexico. > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Chankey Pathak <chankey...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> In my web-app there is a HTML screen which provides the facility to >> select and download documents. If user selects some documents (using >> checkbox) and submits the form then then all of his selected documents gets >> downloaded in form of a zip file. What I do is that I take user's selected >> documents and then use Archive::Zip to create Zip file. It works fine. >> >> But if the user had selected a lot of documents then the create_zip >> subroutine takes a lot of time, and if it takes more than 4 minutes (240 >> seconds) then apache timeout occurs causing the 503 error, but in the >> backend the subroutine keeps doing the job, but due to the timeout I can't >> send the created zip file to user's browser. >> >> I'm confused how to solve this problem. *How to keep the connection >> alive unless the subroutine finishes its job?* >> >> PS: Web-app is built using CGI.pm and Perl 5.8.5. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Chankey Pathak <http://www.technostall.com> >> > > -- Regards, Chankey Pathak <http://www.linuxstall.com>
