Re: Read timeout POST and mp3.com

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:51:11 +1100

Tim Thornley wrote:
>
> I have had trouble posting mp3's to mp3.com
>
> The problem is the default timeout of 15 minutes for read_timeout since it
> takes more than 60 minutes to post some mp3's to that site via a modem.
>
> I have noticed on the mp3.com site some notes suggesting that the site
> should be accessed directly and not via a proxy due to this problem. It
> makes more sense to me to simple change the timeout.
>
> I have changed the setting for my site and the problem is fixed. Can anyone
> see a reason why the default could not be changed to 120 minutes?
>
> Cheers
> Tim

I can think of a _lot_ of really good reasons. But I get the impression
that the better thing to do would be to make sure that we treat the
client sending as the same as the server sending. That still retains the
spirit of the thing without changing the default timer limit to
impractical values.

D
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