Also, that whole auto-load is theoretically impossible... You "reload the page" and you are restarting the script from scratch. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Help with timeouts > Folks, > > Some answers: > > > I have a very complex database operation that can sometimes take > > 70-90 > > seconds to return results. The web page which displays the results, > > however, seems to always timeout at 60seconds despite setting the > > Apache > > timeout to 300 seconds and set_time_limit to 240. > > After a helpful web guru called us up from our post, we were able to > diagnose what's happening here (donation to be announced later): > > Regardless of the Timeout and set_time_limit() settings, most browsers > will time out at 60 seconds. > > This is obviously a huge annoyance. Therefore I am offering a *second* > charity prize to any person who can give me code (PHP or Perl) which > will display a "Processing" screen with an auto-reload to keep the > browser interested while waiting 60 to 120 seconds for a database > response in the background. *Someone* must have done this already, even > though multi-threading in PHP & Perl is nigh impossible. > > -Josh Berkus > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >