If you don't have control of the web server you're going to have to get
creative. Instead of returning the zip file from the page that processes
the request, you could:
* ok - Fork a process to build the zip and place it in a location specific
to the user or their session then return a page with a link to that
location and a warning that the link may not work for a few minutes
* better - If you're comfortable with javascript (or meta-refresh at a
pinch), you could fork the process, then return a page that tells the user
that their request is in progress, then periodically refresh the results
page until the zip is available.
This isn't really a Perl question, so if you need further help, you might
want to ask it in a forum devoted to web development.
Cheers,
Michael
On 09/05/2013 01:25 PM, Chankey Pathak wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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.
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