Re: Webware/Apache Threading Problem?

Dan Milstein wrote:
>> Can you tell us what's different between your production and dev
>> environment? That would include how the process is launched as well.
>> And is there a difference in what modules get imported?
>>     
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> Let me do some detective work -- I've got a bit of time now, so let  
> me see what I can find.  If I come up blank, I'll pass on everything  
> I've got.
>
>   
>> Also, even if you tapped into the cgi module, would you really be able
>> to give the user a progress bar? It seems that their window would be
>> tied up by the upload task being performed by the browser.
>>     
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> It works by way of a Javascript function which polls the server every  
> few seconds and updates the progress bar.  The tricky part is getting  
> some sort of identifier to the Javascript function so that it can  
> tell the server which upload it's asking about.  When I generate the  
> page, I put in a new unique id which goes both into the URL of the  
> form action and into the Javascript code.  The tapped cgi module then  
> gets that id from the URL and, as it fills the temp file, updates a  
> globally-accessible dict with info about the progress.  The JS  
> function hits a servlet which just grabs the progress info from that  
> dict.
>
> It's a surprisingly small amount of code, actually -- it just touches  
> on a lot of stages in subtle ways.
>
> -D
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I'm sorry if I missed the definition of a *large* file -  could you 
provide a figure in bytes please that seems to be the threshhold for 
causing problems?  Thanks.

- Doug

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