At 09:01 PM 8/3/2005, Bill Stoddard wrote: >A monitor thread would periodically check for a transmitfile >completion status; if the completion status is too slow in >coming, the monitor thread cancels the io and closes the socket.
We really need not wait ;-) Driving home from your neck of the woods in NC (well, a bit west in fact, near Fontana) it struck me that for all the individuals wishing for 'absolute' timeouts on unix platforms, it would be rather cool to cache the start time and run a parent thread against the scoreboard, killing all the lingering processes subject to byte-at-a-time DoS attacks in the headers. We would obviously need to be careful of lengthy req bodies which would take more time than the 'absolute' timeout, but your comment reminded me that perhaps, we can kill two birds with one stone :)
