Posted by Jim Moseby on 08/23/05 20:39

> We set the application up on a Windows 2000 Server with IIS (5, I
> think), and it would work fine for about a day. Then Padcom clients
> kept stopping. They'd request the page and, after a loooooong time,
> display a message that the request timed out.

Can they access other (non-php) pages on that server during one of these
failures? Can they PING the server? I would bet a days pay ($5.25 - just got
a raise!) that they can't. And if I'm right, this eliminates PHP as the
cause and starts to smell more of a firewall/routing/DNS/VPN type problem.
Have your network people had a look at a packet capture from the network
during one of the failures? If they did, they would see what was happening.

The fact that you say it is ONLY the padcom clients is enlightening because
it means this is not a server failure, but a failure somewhere in between or
at the client itself. In any case, I don't think your boss's requirement
that whatever language is chosen must run on IIS (ack!) is violated, because
PHP runs quite nicely on thousands (I'm sure) of IIS servers.

JM

"Windows: 32-bit extensions and a graphic shell for a 16-bit patch to an
8-bit OS originally coded for a 4-bit CPU, written by a 2-bit company that
can't stand 1-bit of competition."

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