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ivan006
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

dropbox webhook timeout multithread

My webhook is timing out because the process that is being run in responce to the webhook is too long. now i know what u thinking "why is the process such a long one" well it just is okay and it need...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Unfortunately, exactly how you manage threads is outside the scope of support I can offer, as it's not about using the Dropbox API itself. Please refer to the documentation for your platform/programming language for information on how to use threads in your environment.

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ivan006
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

ill just toggle a pending/complete status in and update_status.txt file during the webhook and then run a minute by minute cron job to check the update_status file for a pending statuses. God php is so mono-threadular why do i even bother.

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