[Zope-dev] CST 0.8 Updater Fixed...

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:34:16 +0100


Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> This is due to the relationship between ZServer and the publisher.
> Sometimes it can be a bad thing... especially when there's an expensive
> method that folks fire off that takes a long time.. nothing comes back to
> their browser, so they press stop and hit the page again... etc. etc.  So
> you have a number of threads hung.
> 
> Sometimes it can be a good thing, however, such as when you want to go to
> Slashdot after you fire off a 'pack'.  ;-)

Hmmm... does make for some pretty simple and very effective DOS attacks though
:-S

What would it take to fix it?

cheers,

Chris

PS: Your Slashdot viewing is easily solved; open another browser window ;-)