Page Timeout for a single page

[Mark Miller]

I can't seem to find anything about setting the timeout for an individual
page. I have a long running post to a page, but the post is done from an
applet, so the browser doesn't have a timeout problem. But the server is
closing the connection and terminating the request after 90 sec (the default
timeout).

I don't want to change the page timeout for the whole application - MS best
practices discourages it because resources are used until the page times
out. The page in question is used for large file uploads and the applet is
for large numbers of large uploads at one time (30 - 100 files / 3-6 mb
each) which is why we use the applet.

I know that I could create an IIS virtual application directory with it's
own web config file but I was wondering if some one could confirm for me
whether or not I can set the timeout for a specific page or not.

Thanks,
Mark Miller

 

[Anon-E-Moose]

The page in question is used for large file uploads and the applet is
for large numbers of large uploads at one time (30 - 100 files / 3-6 mb
each) which is why we use the applet.

If you're uploading 100 files x 6MB each... that takes up quite a bit of
server memory.

Wouldn't it make more sense to upload via FTP?

As for page timeouts, I don't think you can control it on a per page basis.

 

[Mark Miller]

Thanks, I appreciate the response.

If you're uploading 100 files x 6MB each... that takes up quite a bit of
server memory.

Wouldn't it make more sense to upload via FTP?

We are using SoftArtisans' FileUp so the files aren't being loaded into
memory, they get chunked to disk as they are uploaded. Then they get passed
one by one to the ASP.Net page. We're doing it this way because we are
likly to have hundreds of users uploading and we don't want to manage the
FTP user accounts among other things required to hook the files into the
application.

As for page timeouts, I don't think you can control it on a per page

basis.

I thought so. I just wanted to confirm it.

Thanks again,
Mark