Re^2: Zip file extraction (perhaps a little OT)

As I understood OP's question, in this case the "long process" is the upload itself, so I don't know if merlyn's column is applicable here. On the other hand, I remember that Apache times out only upon idle conditions, so a very long upload (where data continues to pipe in) should not be a problem.

Flavio
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Re^3: Zip file extraction (perhaps a little OT) by coldfingertips (Pilgrim) on Sep 05, 2007 at 16:21 UTC
I might be wrong but I don't think that's the case. I once wrote a bot that scraped a page and submitted a dynamic form 10 times per search query for sometimes hundreds of searches/page scrapes from a slow server.. and it often gave up after a few minutes. I also created a link popularity script to parse engines and that occassionally timed out as well. In reality I need to find a way to break up the uploaded zip archive and upload for X minutes (or X MB, or X files), load a page and meta refresh, and then start where I left off.	[reply]

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Re^3: Zip file extraction (perhaps a little OT)
by coldfingertips (Pilgrim) on Sep 05, 2007 at 16:21 UTC

In reality I need to find a way to break up the uploaded zip archive and upload for X minutes (or X MB, or X files), load a page and meta refresh, and then start where I left off.

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