Is there a way to abort a processing thread

Straight forward question... How do I handle timeouts for server-side script execution in a web server?
Let's say I have a very simple server that only handles one request at a time... A request arrives for a webpage including a piece of some server-side script (that may contain an infinite loop). My server parses the request and starts executing the corresponding script in a new thread. Now, I could do join(timeout) on this thread and then call stop() if the script is still executing... the problem is that stop() is depricated and thus it feels like the wrong approach. But what are my alternatives?

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Re: Is there a way to abort a processing threadNo, there isn't.
Straight forward question... How do I handle timeouts for server-side script execution in a web server?From the client end or on the server? If it's on the server see the first reply
Let's say I have a very simple server that only handles one request at a time... A request arrives for a webpage including a piece of some server-side script (that may contain an infinite loop).In general, this is a very very bad thing. You never want to expose functionality to a client that could put you into an infinite loop or kill your system somehow.
For more information, google for "SQL injection", see what that is and why it's very very evil
My server parses the request and starts executing the corresponding script in a new thread. Now, I could do join(timeout) on this thread and then call stop() if the script is still executing... the problem is that stop() is depricated and thus it feels like the wrong approach. But what are my alternatives?Stop() is not only deprecated, but it's not implemented / non-functional (at least on my machine).
The best alternative is not to run anything that you aren't confident at compile time will return in finite time.
Another alternative that I do not recommend is that there is a debug API... I forget the name - something used in IDEs to get the state of threads + mem, etc. Honestly, I don't think that even that will allow you terminate a thread, but you might want to look into it.

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