Can I make Asp program sleep?

Hi all,
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We use Payflow Pro from Verisign(Now it calls paypal Payflow Pro) as a
gateway software to process credit card payment.
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Most of time, Paypal server is OK and we don't have problems for
credit card payment. But we do experience some issues sometimes.
i.e. Occasionally, after credit card information was submitted to
payPal server, we didn't get any response from their server, no error
code, it is just an empty string.
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I am not sure how it happened. I am thinking it's probably caused by
our server program not waiting long enough for their server's
response if their server has some performance issue(slow in response)
at that time. When the server response is not back yet, our program
goes forward already, then cause the return string from their server
is empty. Am I on the right track?
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That's why I am thinking to make our asp program sleep for a while at
this statement:
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Executor.Application = sDosCmd 'this command basically has credit
card
info for processing
sResult=Executor.ExecuteDosApp 'sResult is the string back from
paypal server
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I want to add sleep 3000 right after this statement.
then check is sResult is empty, if not, program goes on. If yes,
continue to sleep...
until a non-empty string returns or quit the transaction after a long
enough waiting.
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Would you like to share some your experiences of credit card
transactions? I am dealing with a production server, so it is a very
critical issue for us.
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I googled a bit. It says on ServerObejcts.com it has waitfor 1.0 we
can download.
I don't see this product.
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Thank you,
--
Betty

No.

Bob Barrows wrote on 20 nov 2008 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
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Perhaps yes, Bob,
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Does this wait for 100 millisecs, or till the theString is not empty?
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[jscript]
var endTime = new Date() + 100
do {
now get fresh value for theString;
} while (theString=="" && endTime new Date());
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[not!!! tested]
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Evertjan. wrote:That is not sleeping, but you know that.