On Thursday 17 July 2003 8:07 pm, Jason Sibre wrote:

> I haven't run into this scenario yet with Quixote, but I'm
> anticipating it based on prior experience with other web publishing
> techniques.
>
> Does anyone have any Quixote specific tips/experiences that could
> be helpful in handling long running requests in Quixote?  I'm
> talking about requests that for some reason or another (perhaps a
> long-running DB query) take a long time to get handled (maybe 30
> seconds or so).

Don't allow DB queries that take 30 seconds.  :)

Seriously, it's easier to implement than threads.  Way easier to test
and validate.  (Writing unit tests for a a threaded application is a
pain.)

I'm curious about when you have run into this in the past ...

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