[phpxmlrpc] Long lasting calls

[Attila]

Alright, in that case I may be hitting something else.

Ill try a few things and if I find something I will share my results.

Thanks

On 8/31/10, Gaetano Giunta <giunta.gaetano at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>
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