Why doesn't a request with an infinite loop get killed by ColdFusion request timeout?

Question

First, I set Timeout Requests after (seconds) to 20 in CF Admin.

Then I run a cfm with a line like while(true);

The page will run w

Answer 1

I'm finding the same thing as Henry. Here's my test code:

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After thread

My request timeout is set to 20sec in CFAdmin, and this thread has now been running for 15min. That said, a thread is not "a request" so am not sure I would expect it to respect the request timeout. There's nothing documented that I can find that suggests it should respect the request timeout. That said... having some way of killing a thread would be "handy".

I guess this is only an "answer" in the context that I don't think your expectations are correct in that you expect it to respect the request timeout.