Re: Timeout Status Code

miked@CERF.NET (Michael A. Dolan)
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 16:39:20 +0200
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At 02:26 PM 6/13/94 +0200, John C. Mallery wrote:
>I'm currently using 5 minutes as a timeout.  Any thoughts on better timeout
>limits?

Is this unconditional ?  What if I have a slow line and a large document ?
If it would time out unconditionally after 5 minutes, then perhaps it
should be an algorithm of document size and transfer rate ?

        Mike
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