Our web application users need to download a huge file (>1.5GB). It is not a file actually, but data retrieved by our application from the database.
They send a web request, and our application returns chunks of data.This, obviously, takes time. However, the connection is not idle, or inactive, during the time of the download. The server keeps sending chunks of data.
Our application can either use a CGI program or an ISAPI extension.
My question is whether any of the IIS (or IE) timeouts (session timeout, CGITimeout, etc.) is about total time a request takes, whether it is active or not. That is, could it be that although the server keeps sending data to the client, IIS or the IE browser will close the request and the connection because it took too much time?
A reference to a documentation about it would be great.
Thanks,
splintor