Re: Safari browser timeout setting?

Caveat Emptor and all that, but here's a solution. And it's even free.

http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/snt

At 04:42 PM 9/2/2004, L Lockwood wrote:

>(Thanks to Sara and Graham for helping me out with my last question!)
>
>Here at Physical Plant, we have a large suite of web-based reports. One
>very large and important one is such a beast that it takes anywhere from 30
>seconds to two minutes to load.
>
>Several of our users are using the Safari browser in Mac OS X. Safari seems
>to have a default time limit of 60 seconds, beyond which it will not wait
>for any web page to load. Needless to say, this causes a problem when this
>crucial report goes longer than 60 seconds.
>
>The workstation support folks here have generously upgraded the iMac that I
>use for web page testing to OS X, so that I can work with Safari to overcome
>this problem. However, there doesn't seem any way that I can find to
>increase or eliminate that 60 second time limit.
>
>I really hate to tell my end users, "you can't use that brand-new browser on
>our report." Tearing the report apart to streamline the code and optimize
>the SQL is an uncertain possibility that will likely take a long time to
>accomplish. It may require some sort of data precompilation in the
>database, and that would not be a quick fix.
>
>Any ideas how Safari can be convinced to be more patient in the meantime?
>Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
>-----------------
>L Lockwood
>Webmaster, Programmer/Analyst-II
>PP-CS Information Systems Group
>3-8467
>
>
>
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