in reply to Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function

Fork off grandchildren to do the mailing, and return from the CGI immediately. Give em a URL that can check up on the progress of the children if you want to get fancy. A LOT of clients will time out at two minutes, a lot of IP stacks at 2-5 minutes, apache is pretty stubborn but it too will freak after a while.

Making a CGI user wait for the status of a serious bulkmail is nuts. And worse, if they hit esc and reload to try and "get it to work" well then you had better be debouncing multiple submits or your mail users aren't going to be happy.

extremely <== has done all this wrong before =)

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RE: Re: Getting Close and Cuddly with the sleep() function
by skazat (Chaplain) on Nov 06, 2000 at 04:38 UTC

    >>And worse, if they hit esc and reload to try and "get it to work"
    >>well then you had better be debouncing multiple submits or
    >>your mail users aren't going to be happy.

    Each list made has a database with all sorts of good info in it. Its not hard to put a sending value at "1" and then only allow sending again when thats at 0. I have a pretty tech system going here, but to be honest, the worst part of it is the mailing part :)

    Although I believe nows the time to get that up to speed. -justin simoni
    !skazat!

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