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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last week, I discovered a bug in Apache httpd’s mod_cgi. Basically, it means that mod_cgi does not timeout until 2x the duration of TimeOut, while mod_proxy_http (used by Plack) times out after 1x the duration of TimeOut.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can see the details at <a href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26400">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26400</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Apache community worked very quickly, and together we’ve resolved the bug, but I don’t think Apache backport fixes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That said, there’s been an open bug report in Debian for 5 years (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780123">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780123</a>). I’ll send an email in telling them that this has been fixed upstream. I wouldn’t count on a backport though.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, the real importance here is that we harmonize people’s expectations. With Bug 15218, we started using CGI mode for certain long-running processes. It might be that this isn’t 100% necessary in all cases, if we just increase the ProxyTimeout to match the effective TimeOut time of CGI processes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Cook<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prosentient Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>72/330 Wattle St<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ultimo, NSW 2007<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: 02 9212 0899<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Online: 02 8005 0595<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>