I have a server page that has served an HTML page with a "Cancel" button on
it, BUT this server page has not completed and is running a 15-30 second
process before it completes. I want the browser user to be able to
terminate the page before the server process has finished. What I tried was
an onClick event that issued a "location.href. .." in hopes that this would
load this referenced page, etc. but I have found that the browser waits
until the server process had compled before executing the "location.href" .
Is there some way that I can "signal" the server to stop processing so that
I can go to the "location.h ref" page; or is there some other way?
TIA,
Larry Woods
Jul 19 '05
17 3278
> It is possible that the user will want to "bail out".
And such a user would use the STOP button, why are you trying to invent your
own methodology to replace it?
Larry Woods wrote: I'll look into the Google suggestion.
I want the user to terminate the page, but not the present session.
Clicking on the Stop button resets the HTTP connection; it does not
affect the current session.
In another response to my question I have explained my application. The delay is a possible looooong Web search by the server.
Consider doing the XMLHTTP fetches in a background task or program and
not by an ASP page if they require more than a few seconds of
processing. Otherwise your own web server's memory and CPU will be tied
up waiting.
A periodic VBScript batch run or a VB program can do the XMLHTTP
searches and won't bog down your web server. Users' experiences will be
better since they are free to do other browsing while waiting for the
XMLHTTP searches to complete: users could check results hours or days
later. When your web server goes down, requests are not lost. When your
database server goes down, once it is restarted requests will be
requeued automatically (the user doesn't have to re-enter them). You
would get a more reliable, better-performing system.
You could also provide users with a mechanism for killing a search if
that search takes too long or if a user changes his/her mind and decides
the search results are not necessary. All that is possible with the
suggestion that I made on Google, but most is not available to you
otherwise.
Good Luck,
Michael D. Kersey
Sorry, guys! Just going by the statement by the author at the beginning of
the article on aspfaq. Didn't check any further. Figured he knew. Oooops!
Larry
"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aa***@TRASHasp faq.com> wrote in message
news:OU******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... That is a good idea, Aaron, but this solution is "IE only"
What? You can't use a hidden frame like this, in other browsers:
<frameset rows="99%, 1%"> <frame ... <frame ... </frameset>
???
Larry Woods wrote: Michael, Could you clarify one of your statements: "Otherwise your own web server's memory and CPU will be tied up waiting." Are you saying that an ASP site does not multi-thread?
No. What I meant was that:
- each thread that loads an XMLHTTP component waits for completion of
that component's request,
- that wait apparently can take many seconds, or can timeout, or can
fail,
- during that wait time, the resources (memory, CPU) used by that thread
are tied up and are unavailable for processing other HTTP requests.
ASP (indeed, HTTP, but that is a bigger story) is designed so that
requests are received, processed quickly and responses returned. Waiting
for *any* I/O process (file access, database access, an XMLHTTP request
to another website) ties up resources (CPU and memory). However, while
file access and database access are typically performed in micro- or
milli-seconds, an HTTP request is measured in seconds or tens of
seconds. And the likelihood of timeout or failure is much, much higher
for an HTTP request to a remote server than for a database or file
access on a local server.
Summary: long-running ASP scripts can bog down a web server if many
requests arrive in a short time.
Good Luck,
Michael D. Kersey
The ASP page can see if the client is still active by
checking Response.IsClie ntConnected (I think it is a
memebr of Response, check the docs for more details) and
if the client is not connected then stop processing the
page.
Alternatively you could try something detaild here; http://www.aspfree.com/articles/1333,1/articles.aspx
Which is bascially Micahel's suggesting with code.
ASP is mutli-threaded but you don't get too many threads,
and the reason is that pages are supposed to execute very
quickly. When you have long-running tasks then those
threads can quickly get used up. -----Original Message----- I have a server page that has served an HTML page with
a "Cancel" button onit, BUT this server page has not completed and is running
a 15-30 secondprocess before it completes. I want the browser user to
be able toterminate the page before the server process has
finished. What I tried wasan onClick event that issued a "location.href. .." in
hopes that this wouldload this referenced page, etc. but I have found that the
browser waitsuntil the server process had compled before executing
the "location.href" .Is there some way that I can "signal" the server to stop
processing so thatI can go to the "location.h ref" page; or is there some
other way? TIA,
Larry Woods
.
Great info, Adrian..and article, also.
What determines the number of threads that ASP gets?
Larry
"Adrian Forbes - MVP" <ad****@xxxnoem ailxxx.com> wrote in message
news:0d******** *************** *****@phx.gbl.. . The ASP page can see if the client is still active by checking Response.IsClie ntConnected (I think it is a memebr of Response, check the docs for more details) and if the client is not connected then stop processing the page.
Alternatively you could try something detaild here;
http://www.aspfree.com/articles/1333,1/articles.aspx
Which is bascially Micahel's suggesting with code.
ASP is mutli-threaded but you don't get too many threads, and the reason is that pages are supposed to execute very quickly. When you have long-running tasks then those threads can quickly get used up.
-----Original Message----- I have a server page that has served an HTML page with a "Cancel" button onit, BUT this server page has not completed and is running a 15-30 secondprocess before it completes. I want the browser user to be able toterminate the page before the server process has finished. What I tried wasan onClick event that issued a "location.href. .." in hopes that this wouldload this referenced page, etc. but I have found that the browser waitsuntil the server process had compled before executing the "location.href" .Is there some way that I can "signal" the server to stop processing so thatI can go to the "location.h ref" page; or is there some other way? TIA,
Larry Woods
.
Ignorance on my part...
I am instantiating a dll (visual basic-based) that is doing a bunch of
calculations. I have not defined it within a transaction, or anything like
that. It don't access any of the ASP objects, etc. The exposes some
properties and methods. The user "feeds" some data via properties; then
executes a method, which does the calculations, returning a value.
Question: Is this running under MTS/COM+ ??
TIA,
Larry Woods
"Adrian Forbes - MVP" <ad****@xxxnoem ailxxx.com> wrote in message
news:01******** *************** *****@phx.gbl.. . What determines the number of threads that ASP gets?
IIS5 defaults to 25/processor and IIS4 10/processor but you can change the defaults if you want.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? url=/library/en-us/dnserv/html/server02282000. asp
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceprov...tepapers/tunin giis.asp
More worrying that IIS's thread pool is if your long- running code is inside MTS/COM+ as that has even less threads given to it.
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