It's not in a task queue or cron job.  It's definitely not holding up the UI
since the fetch is happening in an AJAX call and the user knows that the
call will take a few seconds.

Putting it in a task queue means i have to store the results and poll the
server to check if the results have finished, or use the channel API to push
a notification back to the client.  Those approaches both use more quota
than would simply allowing for more time on a normal fetch.

Luis





On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) <[email protected]>wrote:

> Are you doing the urlfetch in an offline call (task queue or cron)? If so,
> the limit should be higher than 10 seconds as of SDK 1.4.1.
>
> I hope this isn't an "online" call, because it would suck for a user to
> wait 30 seconds before a page load. You're better off showing the user a
> loading screen, handing the job to a task queue, then updating the page when
> the fetch has finished.
>
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Luis Montes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I understand why there's a 30 second limit for an http connection to GAE,
>> but I don't understand why server to server URL fetches get timed out at 10
>> seconds.
>>
>> Seems like as long as you finish up all your processing in less than 30
>> you should be fine.  How about upping the URL fetch max to 29 seconds?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Luis
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