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take to get large amounts of data can timeout a browser.
I thought this too but found out that it could be wrong.

Once this process is started from the browser at the level of nph-incoming.pl it will do the work on its own and will also end the process when finished regardless of the browser timeout problem. The browser only tells you that it is not responding. The browser fails to notice that the process is still going on in the memory and has no control over it. Hence the timeout. That ofcourse does not mean that the process has stoped or got killed.

nph = No Parsing Headers and why should it be incoming.pl instead of nph-incoming.pl?

This script does not require any output or does it?

Hence there is nothing that stops this process from the web.

Although it would be not stupid to run it via web in the form of a login combination.

Once this process is started it will run on its own on the server. So if twenty logins will invoke twenty processes which will continue. Hence it depends on the resources of the server. If the mails have been sorted out then the next process will sort it out and the following process will also be faster. Hence there is also no harm in there.

So to offer an option in the Admin.pm somewhere to the administrator if it should run with the login script or as cron is not at all a bad idea from the designers point of view as it would be the choice of the user/administrator of the script to decide either to work with cron or not. Due to service provider restrictions on resources this option in the admin management becomes interesting.




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Thread Beta 4 - incoming.pl in login.cgi Chaz 3659 May 11, 2001, 7:36 AM
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