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Hi,

I'm implementing a scenario in which I'm starting up tomcat using a
fastcgi application.
I use a queue to stack up requests which gets served by a threadpool
in the application
that forwards the request to tomcat.

I have a problem when it comes to handling timeout conditions. What's
happening is that
mod_fastcgi times out the request when it doesn't get a response from
tomcat. I need a
way of checking if the request that is queued is already timed out
before forwarding the request
to tomcat. I looked around a bit and didn't find a way to do this.

Any ideas on this anyone?