[phpxmlrpc] Long lasting calls

[Gaetano Giunta]

Attila <atteeela at gmail.com> wrote on 31/08/2010 22:56:

> Thanks for your help.
>
> I meant is there anything in the server side of phpxmlrpc that would
> time out the request? (Outside of apache/php timeouts)
>

Not that I am aware of ;-)

> Thanks
>
> On 8/31/10, Gaetano Giunta<giunta.gaetano at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>    Attila wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are using the phpxmlrpc 2.2.2 package in our code.
>>>
>>> An issue we run into is very long lasting calls.  We have methodCalls that
>>> are expected to take anywhere between 5 - 15 minutes.
>>>
>>> The problem is that there is a timeout somewhere.
>>>
>>> In the FAQ there is a section titled:
>>>
>>>
>>>      How to enable long-lasting method calls
>>>
>>> Can you provide a quick pointer on how to prevent the library from timing
>>> out?
>>>
>>
>> Not really hard - it's just that are more than one place where a timeout is
>> imposed:
>> 1. use the timeout parameter in the send() method call [client side]
>> 2. set the php script timeout limit: parameter max_execution_time in in
>> php.ini (or via an ini_set() call if you cannot alter php.ini eg. on shared
>> hosting)
>> [both client and server]
>> 3. make sure that the webserver serving the request does not time out in
>> itself, e.g. the TimeOut directive for Apache might have an impact
>>
>> For debugging purposes:
>> 1. use debug level 3 on the phpxmlrpc client
>> 2. use a network sniffer such as Wireshark
>>
>> bye
>> Gaetano
>>
>> ps: for such long-lasting methods, it might be better off to split
>> processing in multiple xmlrpc calls:
>> one that starts processing, gets back a token
>> then a loop that every X seconds asks with the given token if results are
>> ready
>> server-side, the ignore_user_abort() php function could be used to make sure
>> processing of the first call continues after sending the token response to
>> the client
>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> -A
>>>
>>>
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