Hello All,

A very simple question today, but one who's answer could prove quite useful. Is there a way to capture when a script is killed because of a browser timeout? I have a script that could potentially run for a very long time and I'd like to politely tell people that a browser timeout has happened, inside the error log, as well as a few words of wisdom (of my own) on how to prevent the problem in the future.

I know there are all kinds of signals out there, but it's somewhat of a more low level function that this poor CGI scripter hasn't had much meditation on.

For extra points, the potential browser timeout function is inside a child process that's forked() off from the parent. I'm thinking that it would actually be easier to capture that signal.

Could anyone offer some insight?

Always appreciative,

-justin simoni
!skazat!

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