Russ, I would assume he's using Amazon services for files that need more than just loading images on a web page, but for something like a image gallery, or something else that requires loading on the server side, which is why his question is about requesting the file using CF.
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > Ideally do not use CF to get the image. > Either link to it directly using the img tag or use ajax then it all > happens > client side and will not stop your page loading. > > Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Steele [mailto:r...@photoeye.com] > Sent: 30 October 2010 20:20 > To: cf-talk > Subject: Latency Issues when pulling data from other websites > > > What's the best way to deal with latency issues when pulling data from > other > websites? For example, if we are pulling an image from amazon's web > services, and for whatever reason, that image takes 10 or 20 seconds to > retrieve because of internet network congestion or router problems, then > that request can hang awaiting the response. If there are ten or twenty of > these requests in a minute, then they can effectively hang the CF server. > How do developers deal with this potential problem? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338699 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
