Telling a browser to keep a connection alive

[Peter]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, ted leslie wrote:

> 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.

The timeout option is a socket layer option. Some web servers can be 
recompiled with longer wait options. Googling for 'apache "keep alive"' 
yields 270k answers and the first one is relevant.

Peter
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