[Hcoop-discuss] CGI/PHP script security

[Adam Chlipala]

Tanveer Singh wrote:

> I apologize for making this old topic alive again. The thing is that 
> many times when I open pages on my site, our server is unable to 
> process the request in 10 seconds, which is the script timeout time. 
> So you get the server error. Most of the times on refreshing it goes 
> away. This happens when server is loaded, this is my guess. So could 
> we increase the limit to something like 30 seconds. Dialup users face 
> a big problem. One in three times this "Premature end of scrit 
> headers" comes up. If 30 seconds is too much, I guess atleast 20 
> seconds should be given.

I'm curious: is anyone else serving/retrieving large files through our 
Apache?  10 seconds already makes it pretty trivial for a buggy 
infinite-looping script to take down Apache.

Tanveer, would you be against switching to running your own web daemon 
to serve large files?