On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Iosif Fettich <ifett...@netsoft.ro> wrote:
> > I'm trying to achieve the following: when there is an incoming request, I > want to set a time limit in which an answer should be delivered to the > client, no matter what. > > However, since the work triggered by the initial request (there is another > request to other site involved) might take much longer than that time > limit, I want that work to properly finish, despite the fact that the > initial request was 'served' already. TMTOWTDI, but the common way to do this is to add the long-running job to a job queue, and then redirect the user to a page that periodically checks if the job is done by using JavaScript requests. If you don't have a job queue and don't want to add one just for this, you could use a cleanup handler to run the slow stuff after disconnecting: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/http.html#PerlCleanupHandler That will tie up a mod_perl process though, so it's not a good way to go for large sites. - Perrin
