Re: [Lynx-dev] Connect-timeout

[David Woolley]

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> The call to the url starts some processing which takes more than 5 hours.

Most browsers would give up after just a few minutes!

I believe there is an HTTP response (Status 100???) which allows one to 
say "please wait".  If that's right and Lynx supports it, a better 
approach would be to have the application periodically send that response.

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