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Bug 917 - Detect and handle "user clicked stop" case and browser timeouts
Summary: Detect and handle "user clicked stop" case and browser timeouts
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LinkChecker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: checklink (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2004-10-12 19:59 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2013-11-03 07:34 UTC (History)
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Description Ville Skyttä 2004-10-12 19:59:47 UTC 
If a user aborts a link checker run (also probably if the user's browser times
out), the link checker process continues to run in the server until completion.
 This should be avoided, if possible.

Random pointers:
- $SIG{ABRT}, $SIG{PIPE}
- http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/mod_perl/chap6/3/8.html