Re: How do web servers handle dropped connections?

[Russell Berry <russ () BERREX COM>]

probably something along the same lines as if you started /blah.pl on the
command line and then sent an interrupt signal.  Depending on how you have your
logging configured on the web server, you would possibly find entries in your
log like: /path/to/http/root/whereever/blah.pl:premature end of script.

Russell


On 25-Aug-00 Walter Hop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> looking at the stars last night I was wondering: if I request a scripted
> page /blah.pl from a webserver, the server starts the perl interpreter and
> runs the script. What happens when the browser breaks the connection
> with the web server before the script has finished? Is the script allowed
> to execute fully and is the output being discarded afterwards, or is the
> process killed immediately? In other words, can server side scripts be
> aborted prematurely in this way - and for example corrupt open files or
> leave inconsistencies in a database?
>
> This condition is probably considered by web server authors long ago, but
> I can't find any info on the subject (and am not great in C)..
>
> cheers,
> walter
>
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