Problems with adserve script causing page hangs, and IRC offline

**crisp** · 03-07-2008 06:49 PM

Hi, was gonna try and get a discussion on IRC going about this. I have an issue where, when there's a problem with the adserve script I need to show (text link ad) on site, it causes the page to hang waiting for the script to respond. Usually it's the MySQL database off-line that the script uses causing the problem, as far as I can tell. Could the script be re-written to fail gracefully if it encounters a problem?

At the moment the only way I can get a page to load when this happens is to take the script out completely, which, is not only breaking the rules to some extent ( although, I in my defence I think it's justifiable, given the ad doesn't appear anyway when the script breaks), but I also then have to keep putting the script back in and seeing if it's working again.

Any chance of this being resolved?

Thanks

Chris

crisp.x10hosting.com

**MicrotechXP** · 03-07-2008 07:41 PM

So with the ad code in it does not work?

**crisp** · 03-07-2008 07:49 PM

No, it loads the page header up to the point where the script is placed, and then hangs there waiting for a response from the script, until that time's out the page won't load.
Edit:
I note that the script's working again now, so it's not possible to demonstrate the problem unfortunately