Re: your mail

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

Thanks for the info. If anyone has a suggestions they'll be in touch
soon. Otherwise we'll be happy to consider any solution that you
come up with.

cheers,
rob

>hI,
>	We are using Apache server for internal IntraNet application
>	development. We have Sybase as backend database. For our forms
>	processing, we call CGI scripts which are in perl, which open
>	connection to Sybase and do database operations.
>
>	When database is slow, our users get impatient and press stop
>	button on Netscape 2.0 browser. User can do something else now,
>	however, in backend CGI scripts run  till they finish processing.
>	When they try to send results back to user, server gets SIGPIPE
>	signal and writes the message in log  file. 
>
>	We will like CGI scripts to be "killed" when user hits the
>	stop button on browser. We have been trying to change the server
>	code to accomplish that. We trapped all the signal's in server 
>	with the hope that there will be some signal coming back to server
>	when user hits "stop". We don't see any signal. Sould we ???
>
>	Now we are thinking of doing ioctl on socket to get SIGPOLL signal
>	when user hits "Stop".
>
>	We are aware that  this is not a bug or anything. Just looking
>	for some friendly help. This may be usefull to all the sites
>	which use your server to develop IntraNet applications. If we
>	can make it work, will let you know, so may  be you can add in
>	next release if you think it deserver it.
>
>	Please, do you have any suggestions, any  other approach we shall use.
>
>	Thanks
>
>	Harvi Sachar
>	sachar_harvi@jpmorgan.com
>

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