Telling a browser to keep a connection alive

[ted leslie]

Only thing i can think of, is since you are delivering sets of data every 30 seconds,
that you could "selectively meter" out the data, in a sence, intentionally holding back
some data from the "last batch" and trickle it to keep the browser from timing out.

You might also want to consider using  xmlhttp  (ajax) it would  be a lot cleaner solution.

-tl

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:41:59 -0500
Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>    Does anyone know of a way to tell a web browser to not kill a 
> connection (to a cgi script) that takes a certain period of time to respond?
> 
>    The reason I ask is that my perl program tries to spit out data to 
> the browser every 30 seconds during a big job to keep the connection 
> alive (I turn off buffering) but sometimes an external program I call 
> holds things up for too long and the connection dies anyway.
> 
>    I know that I can increase the time-out on the webserver but from 
> what I can tell the browser generally ends things.
> 
>    I'm worried that this option won't exist in browsers for valid 
> security reasons...
> 
>    Thanks in advance!
> 
> Madison
> 
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