Internet Explorer Page Time out

[Guest]

Iam using internet explorer to work in my office. Basiccaly is a web based
version of a financial domain application.
Here there are some application, when initiated takes 2-3 hours to complete.
All these time one page is getting displayed.
Some one told me that, by default, in internet explorer, if one page is
displayed more than half an hour, the session will got expired.
Iam having this doubt in mind.. so i used to click Refresh button every 25
minutes.

Iam not sure.. whether my understanding is true or not.

Can any one help me to get a clear idea about this..

Advance thanks for your help,

Expecting your sugessions and comments

KIRAN.P.V.UTHAMAN

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Kiran,

It sounds as if you are using a web page to launch your financial
application to run on the server and after a few hours of processing to
return the results to your workstation?


Basically web servers receive a request from a client, do some processing
and then send a response back to the client. This occurs within a 'session'
on the web server. It is the session timeout value on the web server that
determines if the processing is completed. This is a means of preventing
infinite loops that never stop on the web server.

Pressing the refresh button on your browser has no effect on the session
timeout value on the server.

It is usual for web services that take some time to process to return some
indication of the percentage of processing completed back to the client,
thus keeping the 'session' active and the client informed of progress.

You should perhaps consult with the developers of the application as to what
they expect from you . Whether to start the process and then close the
browser (if no results are returned) or to keep the browser open at the
start page and to wait for the results to be returned.

Pressing the refresh button sends a request back to the web server to resend
the current page back to the client.

Regards.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rob,
What you understood is correct. Yes, iam using a web page to launch our
financial
application to run on the server. It will take some few hours to get
complete. There is an option in the page to display how many transactions
have completed till now. That page is also having a Link called "Refresh
Status". which the indented to display the fresh count as well as any errors
in the completed transactions. At present I used to click on the "Refresh
Status" link of the page, not Refresh button of the browser..
I consulted about the session time out event of the web server with the
development team of our office. They are telling that its a higher value. so
that will not happen.
My Doubt is that whether internet explorer is having some facilty to close a
web page session or close a connection, if its displaying some pages for much
time..

If its not having such a facility then i do not need to click the "Refresh
Status" button every 25 minutes. i only need to click that button after 2-3
hours only, ie the expected time of completion of the work..


Thanks for your earlier reply, and expecting your reply soon

Thanks and Regards,

KIRAN.P.V.Uthaman

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Kiran,

You just need to keep the web page open so that it will receive the
responses back from the server (If the developers have done their job). You
may not even have to keep the page open, but then you will not know when the
task has been completed.

Keeping your IE open on the status page should not effect your other work as
you can open new windows and navigate wherever.

Perhaps a better procedure would be to run the job overnight without human
supervision. You could launch this task using Windows Schedueling.

Perhaps also using an email notification from the server when the tasks
completes or an error occurs would eliminate the need for human supervision.

Regards.