Philip Kaplan wrote: > Brilliant! A meta-refresh should work. > What if I wanted to run it as a scheduled task? Hmm.
A counter and flag in a database, run the script once every 10 mins or whatever is appropriate and use the flag and counter to see if the next section is due and which section. > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Kym Kovan <dev-li...@mbcomms.net.au> wrote: > >> Philip Kaplan wrote: >>> I have a script that needs a few hours to run. It's crawling several >> large >>> web sites/xml feeds. >>> >>> What's the best way to do this with CF? I've tried adding >>> "requestTimeout=1000000" in the URL but CF still seems to shut it down >>> eventually. Also my browser window gives up eventually... >> >> If you can break up the script into discrete chunks then you can run >> them sequentially from a master script that includes each chunk in turn >> each time it is called. >> >> How do you intend to run the script, from a browser or from a scheduled >> task? The master script will vary depending on which but from a browser >> it just has to do a self-refresh after a few seconds as the meta-refresh >> won't happen until the previous script is finished and the page fully >> loads then. The script then starts into the next section. >> >> >> -- Yours, Kym Kovan mbcomms.net.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:322357 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
