Question

I have a webhook which takes a little time to complete (around 5 minutes). However, the request gets timeout after around 30 seconds.

I am on a shared hosting with HostGator and using FCGI for deployment.

I think the request gets timed-out as there is not HTTPResponse until the request is processed. If I can generate some HTTPResponse from view while the request is processed, the script might be able to run longer.

[P.S.: Earlier I tried Google App Engine, where using print 'hi' would print ‘hi’ in browser instead of logging it. Is the same possible with Django. Doing so might send response even while the request completes.] (I was told on Django IRC that even I was able to get print to send message as response, it will only throw out when Httpresponse is returned.) Thus it was suggested to use Httpresponse with an iterable.

Answer 1

The guys at Django IRC told to use HttpResponse with a generator to continuously send an output and thus prevent the script from idle-timeout.

The code for using Httpresponse with generator has been wonderfully described here and here.

Thanks everyone!